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...White House seems to have dismissed the Russian offer out of hand, but the world and the American people expect sober consideration from our leaders." So spoke Candidate Adlai Stevenson one day last week after he had learned that the President had rejected a letter from Russia's Premier Bulganin backing Adlai's campaign proposals to stop H-bomb tests...
...Assured the U.S. that the current rate of fallout of radioactive strontium 90, "by the most sober and responsible scientific judgment," does not imperil the health of humanity...
...hope that these sober facts will not become lost in the political hubbub of the present campaign. It is incumbent on both presidential candidates to admit that the danger of continued H-bomb testing may be much greater than has previously been pointed out, even by Mr. Stevenson. Mike Litt...
Forecast. By comparison, the Nixon and Stevenson campaign tours are models of sober efficiency. The pampered newsmen with Stevenson need not even bother to register at their hotel stopovers; their keys are handed to them as they enter. Buses and police escorts are prompt; breakfast is invariably hot as the plane takes off each morning, and the Stevenson press staff, headed by Clayton Fritchey, gets all the speeches out in advance. But newsmen with Stevenson travel in a separate plane, get less access to the candidate than those with Nixon and Kefauver...
...post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self again. The boy's judgement still stands: "Father's a bit difficult at times, but I love the old bastard...