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...regard for how his beliefs will affect his chances of winning." He thinks Stevenson will win today because the independent voter is "disenchanted" with Eisenhower. "There are more Democrats than Republicans, but elections are swung by the sizeable block of independent voters, whose major characteristic is an ability to scratch a ballot intelligently...
Eisenhower himself has picked up more real political experience than many politicians (of the mule variety) get in a lifetime. Not that he started from scratch. When Eisenhower, nearly 62, took off his uniform last June and started campaigning, he had a lifetime of experience in dealing with people, cliques, passions, ideologies and issues. The U.S. Army does not run without politics; the commander in chief of the largest military coalition in history cannot command (and win) without political maneuvering, and the officer charged with transforming an international paper army into reality cannot do that job, as Eisenhower did, without...
...morning last week, at Luxembourg's City Hall (the Jews had refused to go to Germany), German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Walter Hallstein smilingly handed Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett a golden fountain pen. Sharett bent over the reparations documents, and in the silence the scratch of the pen was heard through the room. But the pen made no mark: its ink had run dry. Stiffly, Sharett signed with his own pen. The other signers: Adenauer, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, representing 23 Jewish organizations outside Israel...
...Grocer Frederick Proehl; for Vice President, Edward J. Bedell, Indianapolis contractor. The Greenbackers, who favor immediate abolition of Government bonds and issuance of paper money unbacked by metal reserves, had 14 Representatives in the Congress of 1878. This year, admits Proehl, they "won't make much of a scratch." Grocer Proehl is not discouraged, however. "The great majority of my customers," said he recently, "feel that it is quite an honor to do business with a presidential candidate...
...hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before he's halfway through repairing her shattered greenhouse. These two are the new Japan, ready to start from scratch on a small farm, cool to both feudalism and Communism...