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Wordiness was not the only common denominator of this year's party platforms. The Democratic platform had ripped heavily into the G.O.P. record, was studded with such words as "betrayal," "vote-buying," "bluster and bluff." But when the Democrats got right down to stating their objectives, they and the...
Days before the convention opened, the squire from Libertyville took up his pencil and began to scribble out a draft of his acceptance address. He got scores of unsolicited suggestions and memos. After reading them, he tossed them aside and continued on his own. All last week, even during intervals...
Giveaways, Grab & Greed. Clement bowled alliterative strikes on the Republicans in all alleys. He attacked Ike's haphazard conduct of foreign affairs "while Foster fiddles, fritters, frets and flits." He accused the Administration of "corruption in high places, involving an unprecedented spree of giveaways, grab and greed." He said...
Today the McDonalds live in a seven-room, three-bath fieldstone house in Mt. Lebanon, eight miles south of the Golden Triangle. They live unpretentiously, do little formal entertaining. But informal callers, mostly union men, are constant. At his office, McDonald exercises a prodigious memory, is a stickler for detail...
¶ Upsets studded the first week of the All-England championships at Wimbledon, which more than ever seemed to be dominated by Australian men and U.S. women. Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, 1954 champion, was beaten by an Indian with a rapier backhand called Ramanathan Krishnan. Ashley Cooper, the 19...