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...vice-presidential nominee in 1960. Just be fore President Kennedy's funeral, when Lodge was in Washington for consultations about South Viet Nam, he called Ike for "social reasons," casually mentioned that a "number of people" had asked him about his availability for next year. Ike repeated his long-held idea that as far as Republican presidential aspirants are concerned, the more the better...
...none. This nation, the Soviet Union, and the world are destined to live for a long time with feet dangling over the grave that beckons to the human civilization which is our common heritage. Against that immense void of darkness, this treaty is a feeble candle. It is a flicker of light where there has been no light." When he finished, Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois walked across the aisle and shook Mansfield's hand. Dirksen told reporters that his long-held doubts about the treaty were diminishing. Said he: "My inclinations now are in the direction...
...list prices mean little in discount houses, and even retail outlets have begun to crack color TV's long-held "$400 barrier." Sears, Roebuck recently reduced its 21-in. Silvertone sets from $449 to $388 and is selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...
...Revolution, by Hannah Arendt. In a shrewd study, Historian Arendt examines the long-held notion that revolutions cure social ills, concludes that most of them do more harm than good...
...official farm-propping price of 32? per lb. for cotton, their foreign competitors pay only 24? because the U.S. subsidizes its cotton exports by 8? per lb. in order to compete in world markets. This is one reason that, since World War II, the U.S.'s long-held textile trade surplus of $300 million has turned into a gold-draining deficit of $400 million yearly as foreign textile men push low-cost, cheap-labor textiles into the U.S. market. The Textile Institute's President William H. Ruffin, who will be succeeded in the job later this year...