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Republican prospects in Wyoming, which looked bright after the suicide of Democratic Senator Lester C. Hunt (TIME. June 28), seem to have faded away like the mountain summer. G.O.P. Congressman William Henry Harrison, grandson and great-great-grandson of Presidents Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, won the Republican nomination, but only after a bitter primary fight with former G.O.P. State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr. Wyoming's tourist business is down about 15% and retail business is off about 10%. A drought has grown worse, and Democratic Candidate Joseph O'Mahoney, a veteran of 10 years in the Senate...
Faced by the difficult and dangerous decisions of the cold war, some of the Western world's statesmen-notably Prime Minister Winston Churchill-have spoken wishfully on occasion of the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Communists. Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson has often veered off in the same direction. But as his nation's chief delegate to the Geneva conference he has had a bellyful of Communist negotiators. Last week he took a realistic look at the problems of sharing a planet with the Reds; in a speech at a meeting of Canadian...
CHRYSLER CORP., whose car sales have dropped (from 20% of all auto sales in 1953 to 14% now), is going all out this fall to recover its position. Chrysler and Plymouth are coming out Nov. 17 with 55 completely new models. President L. (for Lester) L. (for Lum) Colbert even gave a surprise pep talk to the United Automobile Workers' 175-man Chrysler Council to enlist the union's help...
...months almost everyone has known that Chrysler has been having its troubles (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Board Chairman K. T. Keller and President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert told the worst. In the first half of 1954, they reported, Chrysler sales dropped 42% to $1.1 billion, while earnings dipped 64% to $1.81 a share. Directors forthwith chopped the quarterly dividend rate in half, to 75?. Keller and Colbert indicated that third-quarter results would be no better, due to shutdowns for new model changes...
...Mahoney had succumbed to the pressure of fellow Democrats, who turned to him after Democratic Senator Lester Callaway Hunt shot himself to death last month (TIME, June 28). Considered the. only Democrat who has a chance to keep Lester Hunt's seat for the party, O'Mahoney will have no trouble getting the nomination. But the election will be a different matter. O'Mahoney's opponents are sure to charge that the former Senator, who stayed in Washington to practice law after he was defeated, has lost touch with Wyoming. The probable Republican nominee, Congressman...