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...newspapers before Republican strategists decided what to do about it. Then Bob Taft and the policy committee whistled for a halt. They smothered Ives's resolution, set him to work with such wily oldtimers (and Acheson enemies) as Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry and Colorado's Eugene Millikin to work out a more diplomatic draft...
...like Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft, who try to cover their bald spots by combing up a fringe of hair, are known as "slicker-overers," charged a fellow Republican Senator. Said Colorado's Eugene D. Millikin, who is billiard-bald himself: "How can you get any place in politics if you deceive people...
...Eugene Millikin, jovial, conservative G.O.P. stalwart, showed surprising strength in defeating Fair Dealer John Carroll in Colorado. ¶ Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Homer Capehart of Indiana, three conservative Midwest Republicans, beat their Fair Deal opponents. Three members of the G.O.P.'s progressive wing, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey and Vermont's George Aiken, also won handily...
...trouble in retaining control of Congress; in the House, they may lose or gain anywhere up to 15 seats; in the Senate, they may lose Pennsylvania (Myers) and California (Helen Douglas), but will hold everything else, and may even pick up Ohio (Ferguson over Taft) and Colorado (Carroll over Millikin...
...Democrats' best hopes for taking Republican Senate seats seemed to be in Colorado, where popular, down-the-line Trumanite Representative John A. Carroll appeared to be running in front of canny, conservative Senator Eugene Millikin, and in Missouri, where ex-Congressman Tom Hennings, a vigorous campaigner and onetime prosecutor, had reportedly overtaken methodical Senator Forrest Donnell. Republicans agreed that both seats were in danger...