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...future of the U.S. economy, Nixon summed up, is the bright promise propounded by the newest Rockefeller report of beefing up the gross national product from $434 billion today to $707 billion in 1967. "It will never be achieved if we adopt a standpat status quo attitude toward our economy. It will never be attained in a socialistic straitjacket...
Georgia's standpat segregationists got a shock with their Sunday paper this week. Glaring from the pages of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (circ. 512,559) was a statement signed by almost every leading Protestant minister in Atlanta-80 in all-which came out foursquare for the Christian view of race relations, individual liberty and the law of the land...
...ministration helped set a course for the new conservative. Instead of returning to a dog-eat-dog economy. Administration trustbusters have vigilantly policed big business. The Administration has expanded social security, federal aid to hospitals, low-cost housing subsidies and other programs that were once anathema to the standpat conservative. The most significant contribution of Eisenhower Republicanism, argues Hart Schaffner & Marx President Meyer Kestnbaum, onetime C.E.D. chairman and Eisenhower adviser, is that it has encouraged businessmen to "face social problems rather than ignore them, to seek first for an answer in individual and com pany initiative...
...unanimous vote. He is Chile's portly, polished Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With Molotov protesting only mildly for the record, the Assembly voted for the sixth year (42-to-12) against considering Red China for membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only one of the three major agenda items (disarmament, atoms-for-peace, charter revision) seemed destined to benefit in a practical way from "the Geneva spirit." That was President Eisenhower's proposal, endorsed by the Russians at the summit meeting, for a U.N. center for joint development...
...best-organized, best-financed campaign in years, Congressman Ross Rizley was conceded little chance to defeat the Democrats' wealthy ex-Governor Bob Kerr for the seat vacated by ancient Senator Ed Moore. Backed by labor and a strong Democratic tradition, Bob Kerr cried: "Rizley is a reactionary, standpat, Roosevelt-hating, Ed Moore and Bob Taft Republican...