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Hang or Dance. White's Mexico Ledger has a first-class reputation in Missouri, a motto ("Covering the news like dew covers Little Dixie'') and a strong Democratic policy. At the Herald Tribune, Bob White will be taking over one of the nation's oldest, staunchest Republican newspapers. When White first talked to Whitney, he pointed out that he was a Democrat, was keenly interested in whether Republican Whitney wanted to turn the Herald Tribune into a better newspaper or merely into a G.O.P. mouthpiece. Whitney's answer was firm: he wanted a good newspaper...
That caused a howl. Earl retaliated by trying to push through the once amenable Louisiana legislature a law making it easier for backwoods whites and Negroes, Long's staunchest backers, to vote. That caused even more of a howl-and if there was one thing Earl Long could not stand, it was opposition to his will. It was the beginning...
...disillusionment with Castro among his old supporters of the middle and upper classes is becoming obvious. Last week, when his picture appeared in a newsreel in Havana's well-to-do Miramar suburb, not a person applauded. In Washington, Castro's staunchest congressional friend, Oregon's Charles O. Porter, said: "I do not think Castro is a dictator yet, but I do see an ominous trend...
...President's staunchest allies in the fight against red ink are Budget Director Stans and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, who has taken to arriving at his desk by 7:30 a.m., staying until 7 p.m. or later, and was recently heard to mutter wearily: "Somebody has got to invent a 48-hour day." Anderson and Stans hope to hold down fiscal 1960 spending (beginning next July) by cutting into the scandalous $7 billion-a-year cost of farm programs, switching to the states some federal responsibilities for slum clearance, aid to the aged...
...West's staunchest friends. Strongman Menderes will have little to do with the Western institution of the free press. For the first four years of his administration, relations between government and press were good. Shortly after the 1954 elections the opposition press became bitingly critical, and the administration began to strike back. Sweeping Menderes-backed laws can check a newsman into the "Ankara Hilton" for any story that lessens the public's regard for the Premier or his administration...