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Chandler's indestructible popularity in Kentucky and his ballad-singing, back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins...
...carefully tended acres of Arlington National Cemetery. In the cemetery lie the remains of 87,000, most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of their graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil...
Meanwhile, New Haven authorities say that Crimson fans who have not reserved rooms for the weekend will find it impossible to get hotel space. Craig LeVin, owner of the Taft Hotel, advised students who cannot get rooms in New Haven to go to Bridgeport, 20 minutes away...
...Appeals in Washington. The court set aside part of an order by the National Labor Relations Board in a case involving the C.I.O. Textile Workers and the Personal Products Corp., ruled that slowdowns and walkouts do not constitute a failure to bargain in good faith as required by the Taft-Hartley...
...player-manager, won the youthful league's first pennant. Two years later he became the first manager of New York's Highlanders, ancestors of the Yankees. In 1912 he settled down with the Senators and helped raise baseball to national-game status when he persuaded President Taft to throw out the year's first ball...