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...outspoken independence of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, which has vexed some Republican stalwarts, may in the end turn out to serve his party well. Two days after he was invited by G.O.P. Platform Chairman Charles Percy to submit his ideas for the 1960 Republican platform. Rocky went the invitation one better: he submitted what amounted to a whole platform. Among his planks...
Despite the Shah's good intentions and high intelligence, he seems to have developed a supernatural reverence for his own mission, delights in the praise of fawning courtiers. His secret police, a necessity in a country bordering on Communist Russia, are all too often inclined to treat any outspoken critic of the regime as a subversive. Reform-minded men, earnestly hoping that corruption and inefficiency can be cleaned up by the Shah before the forces of unrest become explosive, generally fear to speak out. Said one young nationalist, "Personally, I want the Shah to remain as a democratic king...
...their precampaign jabbing at the Administration record, Democrats were getting some welcome help from the sidelines. Big-time newspaper pundits sniped at the Administration's recent foreign-policy embarrassments (see PRESS). New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, as outspoken an advocate of faster "growth" as any Democrat, warned that the "relative military power of the U.S. as compared with the Soviet Union has steadily and drastically declined over the past 15 years" and called for a $3.5 billion boost in the next defense budget...
...Magic Figure. In St. Louis, in a speech to a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, Nixon took an outspoken stand on a major campaign issue, the "growth" debate. A report by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund set the growth issue fluttering in the political winds in 1958 by urging that the U.S. adopt as a national goal an economic growth rate of 5% a year-as against the average 3% a year over the past half-century, and the roughly 4% a year that economists estimate for the 1960s. Nelson Rockefeller still stands foursquare on a need for a forced growth...
...federal court upheld the registrars, enjoined the commission from holding hearings. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court denied (7-2) the registrars' claim, and thereby made the commission's subpoena a powerful weapon in behalf of Negro voting rights. But two of the court's most outspoken liberals-Justices William O. Douglas and Hugo Black -vigorously dissented, in the belief that the court was retreating on the civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution's due process clause...