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...finger in the 1958 campaign had he wanted to duck a part in almost certain defeat. Last week those same leaders were still grateful. But hardly a Republican leader anywhere could keep Rockefeller's name out of the Nixon conversation. Said Illinois Republican Claude Kent, himself a staunch Nixonite: "We think we have a strong new contender in this other fellow [Rockefeller]." Warned Utah's National Committeeman Jerry Jones: "As of now, I'd be a Nixon man. But if he slips too far to the right, the Republicans might find Rockefeller might turn...
...teacher and mother of five children, Mrs. White startled Houston citizens when she announced her candidacy ten weeks ago. She was written off as a crusading eccentric when she ignored a vacant seat on the school board, decided instead to run against Board Member Dr. John K. Glen, a staunch segregationist...
...countermove, six staunch segregationists chartered "the Little Rock private school corporation" with Faubus' public blessing and the announced aim of leasing the empty public schools to segregated-and state-subsidized-private schools. But it would be a long legal battle before such a scheme could ever work out. The school board tried to bridge the gap by starting TV classes. ("I wonder," snapped Presbyterian Minister T. B. Hay, "whether they will have a closed circuit for black faces.") Faubus even advanced the date of his referendum on segregated schools by one week to give the appearance of progress...
...state publicly: "Our American allies have neither sought nor received promises of military support from us in the Formosa area." On the Continent, France's De Gaulle and West Germany's Adenauer both maintained a disapproving silence. In Australia Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, usually a staunch advocate of a united Western front, declared that his government had "no specific policy" on the offshore islands...
...subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion, had brought the Western nations closer together than they had been for years, and seriously impressed staunch Western friends among the newly independent countries...