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...addition to making his frankest re-election appeal to date, Ike used his Cleveland talk to rip into Adlai Stevenson. Without mentioning Stevenson by name, he struck at "politicians . . . who go about the country expressing . . . their worries about America and the American people," suggested that such "worrywarts" should "forget themselves for a while" and "get out and mingle with the people." If they did, he was sure "their worries would begin to sound foolish-even to them." Troubled with an ailing public-address system, Ike evoked only mild enthusiasm from his Cleveland audience...
...With a rip-roaring locomotive that dumfounded onlookers and customs men, the greying junketeers began their reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies...
...voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable Northern support. Said Illinois' combative Senator Paul Douglas last week: "We must take a stand on civil rights. If the Southerners walk out, it will...
...Brazil, finally gratifying his long-felt urge to fly, ex-Aircraft Mechanic Olimpio Martines Neto, 27, hopped in a twin-engine DC-3 at the city airport, kept it aloft for three minutes, crash-landed in a crowded suburb, walked from the wreck with nothing more serious than a rip in the seat of his pants...
Your verbal picture [TIME, March 12] of Leonard Hall's Alpha-plus Republicans grinding out their slogans portends the party's approach to the masses come the presidential season: Rip off the top of a Democrat and mail it to Hall for Your Handy Republican Speech Kit and, for promptness, a dozen Hardly Used Campaign Cliches...