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Just Like Ike? The Harriman team's strategy is to talk platform as much as they talk candidate. Principal reason: if the Harriman forces can force a strong plank on civil rights at Chicago, they can anger-and possibly drive out-the South, embarrass Stevenson in his position as the peacemaking moderate, and plump hard for a candidate who takes strong stands and can hold the big-city vote in the North, i.e., Averell Harriman. In its long-range thinking, the Harriman team figures that its big platform fight could win for "Honest Ave," much as the 1952 Eisenhower...
Controlled Tears. Like all talk of a possible Democratic Party split over the civil-rights issue, Reuther's threat met with dead silence from the party elders. Determined to work out a compromise civil-rights plank that will be acceptable in the North and not too offensive to the South, most Democratic bosses, Northern and Southern, pooh-pooh the notion that the issue is one that cannot be compromised. Meantime, the package they hope to sell is one prepared by Chicago's Negro Congressman William Dawson, i.e., that civil-rights problems belong to President Eisenhower, since...
...beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable Northern support. Said Illinois' combative Senator Paul Douglas last week: "We must take a stand on civil rights. If the Southerners walk out, it will be healthy for the Northern party. I am not urging them...
...nominating committee. He proposed his slate, ignored all hands raised against it, and announced amid gasps: "As nearly as I can see, it's unanimous." When the time came to lay down doctrine, Adenauer announced that the party would fight the 1957 elections on the same reunification plank as in 1953: "We hold fast to the policy of integration of Europe and the Atlantic community." It was folly to think that Germany could act unilaterally without antagonizing its friends: "Ladies and gentlemen, believe me, we are not at all liked in the world...
...Birds and the Bees (Paramount] abet the growing suspicion that Hollywood is engaged in a Machiavellian plot to destroy television by sabotaging TV's best comics. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were the victims in last month's Forever Darling. This time, George Gobel walks the plank. Since the essence of Gobel's comedy is intellectual, The Birds and the Bees cunningly makes its jokes as physical as possible: Gobel takes pratfalls on land and sea, at home and abroad. When he isn't getting pie in the face, he is compelled to read limp double...