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Political Drift. Last week Premier Phoui gave the Communists the Assembly meeting they had been clamoring for. He strode to the podium in the yellow-walled National Assembly building, denounced the "subversive elements" in the country and derided the tactics of North Viet Nam which, "while accusing us, provokes us." Insisting that Laos "must clearly state that it is on the side of the free world.'' Phoui boldly asked the National Assembly to vote itself out of existence. Like many another Asian leader in recent months. Phoui was demanding the right to rule alone for a full year...
...applause that greeted President Eisenhower as he strode down the aisle of the House to deliver his seventh annual State of the Union message last week was warm and enthusiastic-as if designed to show that the glittering assemblage of Congressmen, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, foreign diplomats and distinguished visitors, almost to a man, liked Ike. Just as unmistakable was the fact that never before in his presidency had Dwight Eisenhower confronted a Congress-almost two-thirds Democratic-so openly skeptical of his programs and philosophy, so thoroughly pervaded on the eve of the traditional message by the spirit...
...Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife's train and did a few jolly jig steps in time to Marine Band music as the stately baroness (widow of Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon) strode elegantly into the East Room after dinner...
Acknowledging the cheers of thousands of peasants who had come swarming into Gangad from 50 miles around, Nehru alighted from his car outside a yellow brick schoolhouse and strode up the gravel path to greet the man he had traveled this distance to see: Vinoba Bhave, a skinny, penniless oldster with sunken cheeks, a wispy white mustache and beard (TIME Cover...
Hours before the newspapers were ready to concede anything, Minnesota's )ouncy senior Democratic Senator, Hubert Horatio Humphrey strode into the headquarters of the Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party in Minneapolis to congratulate Five-Term Congressman Eugene McCarthy for winning Minnesota's second senate seat. Humphrey knew his voters; as the hours rolled by, McCarthy rolled to a 70,000 margin victory over Stassenite Republican Ed Thye, and the D.F.L.'s popular Governor, Orville Freeman, roared to re-election by 161,000 votes for a third term. Long before dawn it was clear that for the first time...