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...income. The G.O.P. "made off with the Democratic farm plank" in 1952, Mr. Stevenson contends, but "returned it immediately after the election." On other main issues of his current campaign, such as the Administration's "giveaway" of public resources, its favoritism toward big business, and its "rattling of the saber" in world affairs, the author similarly charges that the G.O.P. has renounced the Democrat-inspired policies on which it rode into office...
...19th Party Congress 3½ years earlier, Georgy Malenkov, Stalin's own choice for party leadership, had also enunciated the principle of coexistence, but had coupled it with forensic saber-rattling about the "brutal fascist regime" in Washington. Last week Khrushchev was all milk and honey...
ADLAI: "I think almost the best example of intemperance in public life that we have lately witnessed is the Secretary of State's recent magazine advertising of his peculiar talent for rattling the saber and brandishing the bomb ... If the Eisenhower Administration has to brag some more about something, I wish it could boast instead about resolute marches to the brink of peace instead of to the brink of war . . . And another thing-the sudden Soviet pressure for a treaty of friendship implying that any agreement on Germany depends on the U.S. accepting this treaty calls for most careful...
...Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed tiger. Meanwhile, the university has spread its influence far beyond its own borders. Last year 1,000 adults took its special nine-week mining course; 1,000 students are now enrolled at its branch community colleges in Anchorage and Ketchikan; 1,100 study at its military branches at Eielson...
Born the son of a Portuguese carpenter and a Negro slave, António Francisco grew up in the 18th century gold-rush town of Ouro Preto. There, under the harsh rule of whiplashing, saber-swinging Portuguese dragoons, both blacks and whites labored to sluice and pan over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some...