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...Boston audience gasped as he said: "Every piece of scientific evidence, every lesson of history and experience, indicates that a Republican victory tomorrow would mean that Richard Nixon would probably be President of this country within the next four years," i.e., Ike would not finish his term in office. Unfortunately for Adlai Stevenson and his place in U.S. political history, the charges he flung in the closing hours of the 1956 campaign may be remembered just as long as his stubbornly defended, politically disastrous arguments on ending the draft and calling off H-bomb tests by agreement with Russia...
Comstock Hall will solve the housing problem of students in the Greater Boston area. "The new dormitory will mean that any local girl who wishes to live here may do so," Jordan said...
...success would mean much more than just proving relatively new ideas. It would establish The Harvard Opera Guild and its theory that opera has a place at the University. A well-done performance would also establish new faces in the local theatre. It might soon need them...
...years in Washington has been painted in vivid detail by the party hucksters, and both good and bad images of the candidates have been fully articulated. But one aspect of the voting picture that seems to be missing is a clear public understanding of what a Stevenson Administration would mean in terms of policies and personnel...
...Through his New America reports--on education, health, the aged, natural resources, and economy--he has revealed that he has the information, and specific plans based on information. Stevenson has carefully worked out his proposals on the hydrogen bomb, so that the end of the test explosions need not mean the end of defense development...