Word: republicans
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Last week came one of the first serious attempts to treat the Sputnik Syndrome. In a Senate speech Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall prescribed equal doses of common sense and facts. Far from wallowing in the Soviet technological wake, said he, the U.S. has made historic progress. Items: > The intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor has been put into production, and the intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas has been successfully tested at full power...
...change in campaign strategy. With most of the steam gone from some of their liveliest stumping topics, they began heading back to the course steered all along by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: booming the "responsible" Democratic Party, which has proved that it can work constructively with a Republican President. That was the same strategy that returned Democratic majorities to Congress both...
...Senate investigation of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa. most dangerous threat to U.S. society since Al Capone, began to look as though it might never end. Among last week's disclosures: ¶ During a 1953 House subcommittee hearing investigating Hoffa, Chairman Wint Smith, a Kansas Republican, was called from the room to answer the telephone, returned flustered, mysteriously called off the hearings. Last week onetime (1939-1942) Kansas Republican Governor Payne Ratner, a nervous, nose-grooming witness, partly explained what had happened. As Hoffa's attorney, he had visited Smith, used the leverage built up when Smith...
...France itself, where the republican tradition is particularly strong in the southwest, the Gaullist campaign is largely in the hands of tough Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who has launched a series of radio, TV and newsreel presentations to explain the proposed constitution. To ensure that his message does not get garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist...
...Republican Mullin has often thought of switching to political cartoons, occasionally draws them for the WT. But with an annual .income ranging from $35,000 to $50,000 he prefers the profession he dominates. "I'm very lucky," says Mullin. "I'm doing exactly what I want...