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...Democrats are much stronger, he believes, than many think. They have a "reservoir of power" in the lower income groups. Instead of gaining influence among these groups, the Republicans have been "taking too much time shaking hands with themselves." Expanding this statement, Cherington says that the G.O.P. has been "mouthing the old cliches" and saying in effect, "Vote for us, because we're right...
...general's name, or to cite his stand on the Korean war, and the audience applause bursts out. One Congressman, after a recent tour of eight states, reported that everywhere MacArthur's name brought down the house. Another, an active Ike-man, observed: "MacArthur's reservoir of strength is enormous, far more than anybody in Washington can imagine." At a rally in Illinois, an applause meter registered most sharply when Candidate Harold Stassen promised that his first act as President would be to recall MacArthur to active duty...
Died. Major General Robert H. Soule, 51, former 3rd Infantry Division commander in Korea, who won a Distinguished Service Cross for his iron-nerved handling of the X Corps' epic "advance in another direction" in December, 1950, from the Changjin Reservoir to the Hungnam beachhead; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Brinton is sure Mossadegh will hate to do this. "He is an intellectual, "and if he gives up now, he will feel he has not acted according to conscience." Worse, the Middle-Eastern effendi or upper class, of which he is a member, has built up a tremendous reservoir of inferiority feelings towards the West...
...calls are only the start of a statewide fund-raising campaign to meet the $1,000,000 deficit the colleges expect this year. But far more important than their strategy is their target. Like deficit-ridden private colleges throughout the U.S., they are seeking help from the last great reservoir of wealth outside the Federal Government-the private corporations...