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...Republican, Vice President Richard Nixon, is running miles ahead of any other presidential candidate of either party as the present choice of the voters, the Republicans are just as emphatically the minority party in the U.S. In a sampled nose count last week, the Gallup poll found that 56.2 million voters prefer the Democratic Party, 37.6 million like the Republicans, and 8.5 million are still undecided...
...remind Western Europe and Japan that the Marshall Plan days were long since over, Anderson last month took the dust-stirring step of announcing that henceforth dollars lent to underdeveloped countries by the U.S.'s own Development Loan Fund (outgo: about $550 million a year) must be spent in the U.S. Protests rang out that Anderson was dragging the U.S. backward with a protectionist "Buy American" program (TIME, Nov. 9). But Anderson's essential purpose was to force Western Europe and Japan into providing loans to finance their own exports to underdeveloped countries. He would be happy...
...asked New England Missionary John Eliot in 1647, "are Strawberries sweet and Cranberries sowre?" The reason in those days was that cranberries needed sugar. But progress took care of that, and the cranberry has since nourished into a $45 million-a-year business, graced Thanksgiving tables in sauces and jellies, and even-when its juice is mixed with gin-in a concoction called swampfire. But mixed with Arthur S. (for Sherwood) Flemming, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the cranberry last week turned out to be something more powerful: pandemonium...
...German-French alliance is "the laughing stock of the world," cried Bonn's General-Anzeiger, and the influential Stuttgarter Zeitung complained: "De Gaulle has assigned us the role of mere pedestal for his power." The long-moribund refugee organizations-which claim to speak for more than 12 million Germans exiled from German lands now in Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that...
...great." How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report, can be safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples and historic sites located in the area to be flooded are also to be preserved, experts estimate that the cost might run as high as $100 million...