Word: nixon
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After alarming us with such disquieting facts as "Richard Nixon is an s.o.b.," "the Eisenhower gang is a bunch of racketeers," and the Republicans have taken our country so far down the road to destruction that "with God's help, the Democrats must save us," it is good of Harry to comfort us with the heartening news that we have loyal, upright citizens left in the persons of Alger Hiss and Nathan Gregory Silvermaster [Sept...
NEWSPAPERMEN generally keep a sharp eye on TIME'S Press section, which always keeps a sharp eye on them. Last week Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Political Reporter Frank M. Matthews prefaced a story with an excerpt from TIME'S Oct. 8 Press report, "The Campaign Trail": "The Nixon and Stevenson campaign tours are models of efficiency. The pampered newsmen with Stevenson need not even bother to register at their hotel stopovers." Then Pittsburgh Reporter Matthews whooped: "Well, Mr. Luce and TIME Magazine, we've got news...
...increased pace of his own campaign activity? "I like to go out and see people. I get awfully tired of just listening to reports." Had Vice President Nixon made any suggestions about places to go or subjects to cover? No. All that Nixon had told Ike was: "Don't let them work you to death." As for his doctors, far from placing any limitation on his campaigning, they "always tell me I can do more than I want...
From the days of Mark Hanna through the present dominance of Leonard Hall, no one has ever accused the Republican Party of not being shrewd. The party's latest move, the Ithaca ploy, is certainly a marvel of political duplicity. By masquerading a television campaign program by Vice-President Nixon as a press conference designed to increase collegiate interest in politics, the Republicans have furthered their interests doubly. Not only do they achieve the usual effects of ordinary television, but they also gain the advantage of seeming to dispense absolute truth, in league with the legions of education...
...Nixon's well-planned appearance in western Massachusetts last week showed, it is virtually inconceivable that the Republicans could ever lose a campaign train. But that is just what happened last Wednesday in Sunbury, Pa., to Stevenson's special train with the private car that carried Woodrow Wilson to victory in 1912. Stevenson's party had left the train and arranged to meet it in Sunbury, but the engineer was delayed half an hour while Adlai wanted around the station. And every day, reporters said, their buses were severed from the candidate's open car cavalcade. On Saturday, the buses...