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...Democratic split became plainer when attention focused on Texas' tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Governor Allan Shivers. Less than three weeks earlier, Stephen Mitchell, Butler's predecessor as Democratic national chairman, had said that Shivers and certain other Democrats who supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952-specifically South Carolina's James F. Byrnes and Louisiana's Robert F. Ken-non-should be kept out of the 1956 Democratic National Convention. In Washington last week, Shivers announced that he wanted to have words with National Chairman Butler, and muttered: "I want to know whether he's going...
Last week, Ho's propagandists publicly recognized their difficulties by calling for "a resumption of normal . . . economic relations" with the South Viet Nam government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem-in plainer terms, for some of Diem's 400,000 tons of surplus rice...
...Limelight. They were all very pretty, very candy-box, very deadpan, but not what I needed. Claire has distinction, an enormous range, and, underneath her sadness, there is this bubbling humor, so unexpected, so wistful." Claire is a pretty girl, but no beauty: the quality that makes critics and plainer-spoken men yearn over her is charm-a charm to whose single-minded cultivation she has devoted her whole, determined young life. One critic has compared this quality to "the wistful beauty of a lonely blossom of wood sorrel." Of her Juliet, another wrote that she gives "a sweet...
...verdicts of that obscure judge, public opinion, have ever been plainer than the reaction to Nixon himself. That part of the public that could be convinced (and had to be convinced) made up its mind that he was an honest and thoroughly sincere man. His fund was probably a mistake in political judgment (as was Stevenson's) but by the time Nixon had finished speaking, the snowballing charges against him had melted down to a tactical error-and no more...
...been slow in getting off the ground . . . There has been all too much hesitation about plunging into discussions with various sections of the people . . . and too little skill has been displayed in finding the approach to points of agreement around which joint action, however limited, can be organized." In plainer English (but still based on the translation from the Russian), Dennis was telling the boys to soft-pedal all other party activities and get behind the phony peace campaign, to step up their infiltration of factories, labor unions, church, civic and neighborhood groups...