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...that sense that Republican Dwight Eisenhower, after a Washington strategy conference with the G.O.P.'s Capitol Hill leaders, last week defended Kennedy's foreign policies but strongly criticized the President for "the strenuous efforts of the Administration to increase greatly the power of the executive branch of the Government. It has long been my judgment that the real threat to liberty in this Republic will be primarily found in a steady erosion of self-reliant citizenship and in excessive power concentration." To back up his charge that Kennedy is asking for too many powers, Ike cited Kennedy...
Witty, yam-shaped Democrat Di Salle, Harry Truman's price stabilization chief during the Korean war, is now Governor of Ohio. People still call him Mike, but after his present term, he may no longer be Governor. Di Salle faces a strenuous battle this fall against Republican State Auditor James A. Rhodes. A Di Salle-v.-Rhodes contest would confront voters with a clear-cut choice between differing concepts of government. Di Salle, 54, is a welfare-stater who in 1959 pushed through the legislature a $300 million increase in state taxes. Rhodes, 53, will be running...
...long er study all the complex legislation on which he must vote. "You don't want a man to operate on you who just skims his medical books," said Judd. a former Mayo Clinic fellow. Nor does Judd want to spend time and energy on a strenuous re-election campaign in his recently reapportioned district, which formerly con sisted of safely conservative South Min neapolis and now includes the heavily Democratic labor wards on the city's north side. "I don't know that you can get elected in the present situation unless you are willing...
...agnostic," he announced at his first press conference. (And a Boston reporter cracked, "There goes the ball game.") "Winning is not my major aim," he freely admits. (And our reporter, could he hear, might imagine the fans filing out of the ball park.) "I have never been a strenuous anti-Communist," he writes in a forthcoming book. (The crowd stampedes the exits...
Crimson coach Bruce Munro said last night that he plans no special strategy for the Brown game, although observers have noted an unusually strenuous series of practices this week...