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...William F. Knowland announced that he would give his "wholehearted and loyal support" to the state Republican ticket in the November elections. ¶ Virtually every G.O.P. candidate-including Senatorial Candidate Goodwin J. Knight, the incumbent Governor-indicated polite but firm refusal to accept Big Bill's kindness. They prefer going it alone, since they think that Knowland's unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that Nominee Knowland cannot beat Democratic Nominee Pat Brown, who led him by 606,000 votes in the cross-filed primary votes. Cf Los Angeles Lawyer Ed Shattuck, Knowland...
...European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American 'liberals' " apparently prefer chaos to De Gaulle. ¶ "Remarkable" was Reston's word for a commencement address by Adlai E. Stevenson, which called for a committee of experts to work out a long-range economic recovery program for the free world. Said Krock: "The files already are bulging with a dozen such formulations...
...famed September Morn. As for women, "a varied sexual experience is necessary to the rhythm of life," he once told Secretary Young. "It quietens, it deadens, and it diverts." For the rhythm section of his life, Gulbenkian required a new girl about once every three months. He seemed to prefer the Eliza Doolittle type. There was a discreet "mistress of the mistresses' wardrobes" who handled the social polishing as well as the farewell sobs, frequently stifled by generous sums (average...
Congratulations to those readers who opposed the supporters of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration [May 5]. As an escapee from Czechoslovakia, I was shocked to learn about people who are against nuclear tests; possibly these people prefer Soviet slavery? In an atomic war, one has the chance of victory-which, no doubt, will be yours-but if the Communists win, nobody will be able to escape to a free country any more. What would be left then? Suicide...
...hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog of 760,000 cars, automakers prefer a showdown in the next few weeks to giving the union a chance to call a strike at the crucial model-changeover time...