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...should open the way to nomination. "Only four states-and the District of Columbia have contested primaries, [and they] have only 106 out of 1,521 convention votes," said he. "I believe that all delegates should have a vote in selecting the nominee." Then he sketched out his four-plank platform: 1) world peace through negotiation, with the U.S. leading from renewed strength; 2) a "sound public investment program in such fields as education, health, slum clearance . . . and more realistic benefits for the elderly and disabled"; 3) another "sound program" to buttress the position of the family-sized farmer...
...major issue of the campaign, commonwealth v. statehood, Ike was less helpful. Though Ferré argued hard on the trip for a Republican plank endorsing statehood, Eisenhower replied: "I think you'd have a better chance, Luis, if you could give the platform committee some indication of public opinion on statehood in Puerto Rico." Ferré found that Republican leaders in Washington generally favor keeping some form of the 1956 plank, endorsing the "fundamental principle of self-determination" of the Puerto Rican people. In his political campaign, Ferré will try to prove that self-determination means statehood sooner...
...Nixon revealed that he had already begun naming an informal fact-finding committee whose members will tour the farm areas and collect on-the-spot facts, figures and information on attitudes to help him formulate a workable program. Such a program, he said, will be ready for a campaign plank after the Republican Convention, and hopefully it will be a good one, so that neither he nor G.O.P. Congressmen will have to run on Ezra Benson's record. Nixon added that he plans a hard campaign through the Middle West and particularly in towns under 10,000 population, where...
...Dreyfus Case spread the infamous name of Devil's Island all over the world, but the prisoners, often shrunken to 70 or 80 lbs., worked and died as before. At night, a "bar of justice" would hold the incos manacled to plank beds, and on execution days the prisoners would be forced to kneel around the guillotine to watch...
...islands the thick walls became mildewed and pocked, the plank beds began to rot, and rust spread slowly over the huge locks and chains. Last week the deserted colony was put up for public auction. It was one of a number of "chattels"-a dry canal, 15 coast guard stations, five silos, two restaurants, two sand dunes, 43 prisons-that the French government is eager to get rid of, and in this case, anxious to forget...