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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emplaning in Portland, Ore. that night, Stevenson and Kefauver sat together, sipped on a bourbon and soda each, grabbed bits and snatches of sleep before arriving at Sioux City, Iowa's Sheraton-Warrior Hotel at 3 a.m. Just before the plane landed, a reporter asked Stevenson how he could smile after such a man-killing day. Said he: "You know, at just about the same hour as this, someone asked me why I ever went into politics. I said it was because I was drafted...
Just as nervously, the U.S. sat the whole thing out. Early in the conference, U.S. Delegate Walter Kotschnig announced that the U.S. would not participate in the debate and voting, nor would it sign the new antislavery convention no matter what it said. The State Department's avowed reason for its position was that because of Senator John Bricker's repeated assaults on the President's treaty-making power, "our present Administration feels it cannot sign treaties affecting internal problems." The likelier reason, which no one would admit to, is that the U.S. did not wish...
...National Tennis Championships (Sat. 2 p.m., NBC). Finals at Forest Hills...
Miss America Pageant (Sat. 10:30 p.m., ABC). The annual beauty show...
...already launched High Finance (Sat. 10:30 p.m.), an audience participation quiz looking for contestants "who want to satisfy their life's ambitions," i.e., hauling away...