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...elections. The name of Thomas E. Dewey, outgoing governor of New York, does not appear on the official casualty lists for November 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., lame-duck congressman from that state, lost out in what must seem to many as nothing more than a minor skirmish. But last week's New York elections mark a decisive turning point in the political careers of these two men, and the repercussions are likely to be felt in national politics for a good many years to come...
...China's side for five years, Quemoy Island is a bleak, treeless patch of rock and sand, 70 square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...
Pulling another rider out of the brimming hopper, the filibusterers won the next skirmish. Colorado Democrat Edwin Johnson pressed for a vote on a rider that would enable the AEC to build nuclear reactors for commercial power production. It carried...
...Republicans right in their economic sore spot. Said Tennessee's sharp-tongued Albert Gore: "Even though the Randall Commission made its report . . . and even though the President had made his recommendation to Congress, the high-protection group has won its first engagement without so much as a skirmish." The Democrats, said Gore, would save the day and append the full Eisenhower-Randall recommendations to the first suitable bill that came along...
...harbor any illusions. Like all decent men, he was glad that "the armistice had ended the killing. But when I signed the armistice, I knew, of course, that it was not over-that the struggle against Communism would not be over in my lifetime. The Korean war was a skirmish, a bloody, costly skirmish, fought on the perimeter of the free world...