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Lodge has a perfect record of winning the big ones in the U.N. He won overwhelming U.N. endorsement of U.S. disarmament proposals despite fierce Soviet opposition. In 1954 he got a lopsided majority for a U.S. resolution to 1) condemn Red China for refusing to free 15 captured U.S. airmen, and 2) send Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to China on a mission that eventually secured the air men's freedom. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian revolt in 1956, Lodge mustered 55 votes for condemnation, even though the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt had badly blurred...
...landslide that rattled the nation's teeth -much as they were rattled when the troops landed in Little Rock last September-Faubus won the primary, thus is slated to be the second man ever to spend three terms in the Arkansas Governor's chair. In a record turnout he defeated two opponents, won a historic 68% of the vote, carried every one of the 75 counties, from the rich, black Delta, heavily populated with Negroes, to the northwestern mountain counties, where Negroes make up only a tiny minority of the population...
Here and there a local station was tempted to cave in and go back to its quiz show or record library. But the networks stuck to their guns and stayed zeroed in on the U.N., holding high the banner of public service whether the public wanted...
Among the causes for the buying spree were the inflationary implications of a proposed $8 billion hike in the national debt ceiling and a new high for the consumer price index, which climbed to a record 123.7 in June. There were also some good business reasons. The depressed machine-tool industry noted a 7% rise in new orders from May to June. Second-quarter earnings in some key industries showed a better recovery than expected, indicating that a snapback in profits may be closer than previously anticipated. Many investors were also quite obviously influenced by the headlines from the Middle...
Died. Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., 30, U.S.A.F. jet pilot, Korean war ace, holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif...