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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position of Vice President Richard Nixon is one of the most interesting-and difficult-in U.S. politics. Long before the President's heart attack, Nixon was a favorite target of Democrats who felt it unprofitable to criticize Dwight Eisenhower. With the post-coronary realization that Nixon may very well be the man they have to beat this November, the Democratic concentration against him has become even more intense. By itself, the let's-get-Nixon drive would be as much a compliment as a disadvantage to him if it were not for a peculiarity of the vice-presidency...
...asked Rowland Hughes if his Budget Bureau work presented a conflict of interest. When Hughes was summoned, he replied vaguely that he had told Wenzell to check with First Boston and Joe Dodge. Non-politician Hughes was jolted to his eyeteeth to discover that he was suddenly a major target in the all-out Democratic attack on the Dixon-Yates contract. Rattled by the committee's questions, he suffered lapses of memory on vital points, and left a bad impression. He was at his most lucid when he said: "We may have made mistakes, the Lord knows, but there...
...biggest target under Air Force sights since the Korean armistice, Alabama's overblown (248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead...
Speech & Contradiction. Ambition-driven Mendès-France not only had little time to get started, but he was also the chief target of systematic hecklers from the right and left, including the strong-arm Poujadists. At a Left Bank rally in Paris, students hooted: "Mendès to the lamppost! Feed him to the jackals!" In his home department of Eure, he urged, in five or six speeches a day, an end to colonial wars abroad and "immobilism" at home. He was constantly interrupted. Usually Mendeès ignored the burly hecklers who make race-hate their specialty...
Stop Sign. Curtice's problems in Washington are tougher to deal with. With annual sales ($13 billion) almost twice as large as those of the second-largest corporation (Standard Oil Co. of N.J.), G.M. is an ever-tempting political target. Moreover, some of Eisenhower's economic advisers are complaining about the rapid increase in consumer credit (up $4 billion in the first nine months of 1955, to $34.3 billion), and at the automobile industry's $14 billion share of it (although repayments are remarkably regular and repossessions low). Because Defense Secretary Wilson...