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Connecticut: Incumbent Republican William Purtell, 61, full-voiced, energetic, up-from-the-tenements screw manufacturer, and Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, 51, suave, quick-witted ex-FBI man, lawyer and wheelhorse Democrat, have hit nearly all of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...
...year on a trial basis, beginning Oct. 31, and make a start, in Geneva that very same day, toward working out a reliable test-detection system. The Russians suddenly found half a dozen reasons to attack the plan for a Geneva meeting. Last week the President turned the screw by calling upon the Soviet government to announce whether it would send a delegation to Geneva. The U.S. and British delegations, said Ike, would be there on schedule...
...supply vessels to Quemoy. Fast as his loafers could carry him, he sprinted aboard Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley's Seventh Fleet flagship Helena to accompany the first U.S. daylight escort to Quemoy. For the product of Bell's sprints, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Turn of the Screw and Convoy for Quemoy...
Alarm & Excursion. As the screw tightened, governments around the world registered concern. Overnight, Philippine President Carlos Garcia created a National Security Council that expressed support for the U.S. position on Formosa; but the President added that the Philippine Republic itself would go to war only "if the U.S. bases in the Philippines are attacked." Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suggested that the U.N. take up the dispute-thereby playing into the hands of Peking, which has been fighting for years for acceptance into...
...field largely to other nations, simply because many U.S. businessmen are unaware of the importance such standards play in world trade. This importance was emphasized last week as 1,000 delegates from 40 countries met at Harrogate, England, to bring the world closer to conformity on everything from screw threads to nuclear reactors. Eventually, their decisions will have repercussions from the board rooms of Krupp to the Kremlin, affect housewives from Minneapolis to Vladivostok...