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Triumph for Right. Real enemies of the axis get clouted. In the past, an editor who criticized too heavily could expect to find advertising from Nevada gamblers mysteriously vanishing from his paper. But even such heretics are forgiven and rewarded if they mend their ways. Recalcitrant Editor M. M. Zenoff of Boulder City was given a fancy public-relations job after he saw the light, and recalcitrant Politico Denver Dickerson, through Pat McCarran, got a job in State Department public relations in exotic Rangoon. Dickerson may yet be brought home to be groomed as the Biltz-McCarran candidate for governor...
...required of the promising young politician that he should be a pace ahead of his time. Often, as in the case of Britain's Aneurin Bevan, the shining locks of promise turn white before the step ahead is spanned. Pierre Mendès-France, who has often been compared with Bevan, is still young enough (46) to feel that the future is within his stride. Last week, the third in France's governmental crisis, Mendès-France asked the Chamber of Deputies to give him the power to lead a government...
Naturally, when the Foreign Relations Committee approved the appointment, everyone wondered how the Post would mend its shettered innuendos. They were not disappointed by a mere acknowledgement. It was "a left-handed endorsement, despite the 15-0 vote." The Post had not deserted its ship. Gathering together its largest type forms, it followed the confirmation into the halls of the Senate...
...combination like this is easily inflammable. The brilliant academician may buck under the reins of a lesser known dean, just as the Hudnut-Gropius arrangement flared up into an interdepartmental conflagration. But it is a risk well worth taking. Without a conservative dean, the school will never mend its financial foundations; without an original artist, it will never be worth maintaining as a graduate school. It will be another vocational school, grinding out competent architects instead of a theoritical fountainhead, enlarging knowledge in the fields of architecture and planning...
...racial groups making up the state's Catholic population. Most numerous are the Irish (750,000 or more), who are also the staunchest Democrats. Republicans have had the most success with the increasingly important Italians (300,000), but Democratic Governor Paul Dever has been working hard to mend his Italian fences...