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...refuge in five hour-long musical comedies, and Studio One begins its ninth year with a report on Orson Welles's 1938 Martian "invasion," with Ed Murrow narrating. Murrow's See It Now will include reports on Marian Anderson's upcoming tour of the Orient, the statehood problem of Alaska and Hawaii, and the rebirth of German industry. Songbird Patti Page will be involved in "a new TV concept" called The Big Record, a guest-laden paean to the recording industry. CBS will ride the range with Have Gun, Will Travel, bring over England...
...both sides of the aisle are entitled to congratulations." Passed, reported Texan Johnson, were "26 more important bills," including the Middle East resolution and establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency as well as price supports for long staple cotton and a poultry-inspection law. (Probable losses: school aid, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, a postal increase and U.S. membership in the world-trade fostering Organization for Trade Cooperation.) "Of course," explained the majority leader, "we will not satisfy everybody. No legislative body in the world could possibly act upon all the items which everyone considers urgent and pressing...
...worried Hawaiians, waiting for the I.L.W.U. to bait the Eastland subcommittee (and probably damage, in the Senate's eyes, territorial hopes for early statehood), the substantial changes suddenly seemed grimly unsubstantial...
...giving Muñoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party a landslide-proportioned 62.5% of the total vote, Puerto Ricans proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they prefer the governor's personally designed status as a U.S.-associated commonwealth to either national independence or U.S. statehood...
...vote polled by the opposition had a special significance of its own. In the 1952 elections, the Independence Party pulled 125,403 votes, the Statehood Party only 84,056. This time the roles were reversed; the Independentists got only 86,101 votes while the Statehood Party more than doubled its 1952 vote, receiving 171,910. It was clear that even among those Puerto Ricans who are opposed to Muñoz Marin. a whacking majority want U.S. ties...