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Vice President Nixon, out campaigning in San Francisco, flatly disagreed. His points: 1) U.S. foreign policy is a proper topic for U.S. debate, and 2) the Eisenhower-Dulles record is the G.O.P.'s great asset and great hope to turn back the Democratic tide. Nixon's argument: "A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy. This Administration has kept the peace without surrender of principle or territory...
National G.O.P. leaders, who had once hoped that the unsavory record of labor racketeering would rub off on labor-oriented Democrats, all but gave up trying to hang failure of the Kennedy-Ives labor bill on the Democratic 85th Congress. No less a campaigner than Vice President Nixon warned that the issue would get all mixed up, could easily backlash to brand the G.O.P. as antiunion. Bigwig Democrats meanwhile whistled merrily, predicted a pro-labor vote that would swell the Democratic landslide. Fact was that the labor bossism issue was a sleeper and much of the whistling...
...Only the Best." Since Nasser seized the canal, his men have put 28,949 ships through without a single serious accident. One day last March an alltime record of 84 ships passed through the canal. By all signs, this month will set another record. Last August the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot...
...lead, zinc and aluminum. Yet, typically, British Columbians spoke of the recession as "the poorest boom in years." The province's salmon fishermen had their best season in decades, and farmers, loggers and production-line workers were making-and spending-enough to keep income and retail sales at record levels...
Laris, who had been heralded as one of the best high school milers in the country last year, justified the advance reports as he set a new course record in the rainy weather by chopping 36 seconds off the old time. Laris broke away from previously unbeaten Yardling captain Marc Mullin before the one mile mark and coasted home with a new record...