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...were disturbed because Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who spoke in the district three weeks before election, had not come forward with a specific farm program, but had again and again indicated that he had grave reservations about the present (i.e., the Democratic) farm program. Benson seemed to threaten a change, but he had not said to what...
Robert L. Johnson '55 of Aurora and Yale's Saybrook College, wounded two Aurora policemen, one of whom was his own uncle, before being seized and disarmed. Police conjectured that recent reported family difficulties deranged Johnson and he intended to threaten his father's life. When surprised on the street-by police officers, he suddenly went berserk, it is believed, and opened fire without warning...
...anticipation of a bracelet shortage which never materialized. Said the commission: "Notwithstanding an increase in imports . . . the domestic industry has been operating, on the whole, on a high and well-sustained level of production . . . Watch bracelets . . . are not being imported ... in such increased quantities ... as to cause or threaten serious injury...
...information brought in by Allen's Central Intelligence Agency. Because the Communist tyranny is conducted behind the thickest cloak of secrecy and deceit the modern world has ever known, a high proportion of the information about this enemy is of the hard-to-get variety. Because modern weapons threaten whole nations, a U.S. chief of intelligence must bear the kind of responsibility that Winston Churchill in World War I ascribed to Admiral Jellicoe. commander of the British Grand Fleet: "The only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon." In that sense, Allen Dulles...
...night the President sat down to a steak dinner with 46 of the 48 freshmen Republicans from the lower house. After coffee, he gave an informal half-hour talk. Ike did not preach or threaten. He outlined the policies of his Administration and quietly explained the reasons for them. Afterwards, the Congressmen kept Ike on his feet for an hour answering a steady drumfire of questions that covered everything from Korea to extension of the excess profits...