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...Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are two fine people who by their way of life make no mean contribution to the maintenance and consolidation of friendship and good will among the peoples of the West, of Africa and of Asia; yet TIME [Feb. 18] gives space to scurrilous rumors about their private activities...
Kennedy shared many of Russell's doubts about the basic merits of the resolution. He agreed with most Senators in his belief that the Administration had botched the presentation of its case to Congress. But, he said, an Administration defeat would mean "we will have repudiated our Government on a major foreign policy issue before the eyes of the world. We will have demonstrated domestic dissension, disunity and a lack of confidence in our Chief Executive at the very time he is involved in critical negotiations with other nations. We will have blunted our warning to the Soviets...
...possible consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would mean the doom of professional sports. "I'm not out to wreck football or sports," explained Old Pro Radovich, ready for court battle to collect $105,000 in damages. "I put 22 years in the game. But I don't like to have a man tell me that I could...
...Pontiac and Cadillac, all of its divisions had trimmed production sharply, and G.M. was producing only 47% of the nation's cars v. 53% last year. Automen pointed out that production did not necessarily match sales, and the fact that Ford was outproducing Chevy did not necessarily mean it was also selling more cars...
...Eisenhower on the ticket, feared that the downturn in parity indicated that the farm slump has still not hit bottom. They also saw a risk that null relatively good hog prices will stimulate an oversupply of pork in 1958, that a 4% increase in cattle now in feedlots will mean lower prices for quality steaks and roasts this fall, that current low prices for eggs (7½ a dozen under last year at the farm) will continue, and that the price supports under dairy products (58½ a lb., wholesale, for butter) will mean more surpluses...