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It was a bitter medicine that Wisconsin's Republican state convention forced on aging (72) Republican Senator Alexander Wiley last May when it voted to support another candidate in the U.S. Senate primary. The G.O.P organization diagnosed Wiley's political illness as an acute case of globalitis-for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Patient Saved | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

But regular Kansas Republicans make their moves slowly; they abhor violent change. Stunned by Hall's ax-wielding and pro-labor actions, they assessed the situation silently, then began moving Kansas and earth to throw the upstart out. Hall's right-to-work veto drew the wrath of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hall's Fall | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

The epilogue, in fact, is the best part of the Tufts show. Written in macaronic Latin, it is the classic take-off on pompous academic ceremony and all its mumbo-jumbo. In it Argan himself passes an oral examination and becomes a doctor. The charlatanism of the whole proceeding is...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Imaginary Invalid | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

Entering the White House, Ike felt sure he could quickly smooth out presidential relationships with Congress. It was not that easy: in 1953 came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION'S PRIVATE LIFE: A Quiet Book Honks Some Political Horns | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

*Eisenhower: The Inside Story (Harper; $4-95).- On Dec. 6, 1648, when the House of Commons was to vote on bringing Charles I to trial, Colonel Thomas Pride, a Roundhead officer, posted his regiment outside Commons. Using a previously prepared purge list, Pride excluded M.P.s who were expected to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION'S PRIVATE LIFE: A Quiet Book Honks Some Political Horns | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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