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...rate transatlantic fares-some 25% below present tourist rates and about half the price of a first-class ticket-were approved last week by the Civil Aeronautics Board. In a letter to U.S. members of the International Air Transport Association, which has final authority over international airline fares, CAB pointed out that the new rates are "technically and economically feasible." The proposed new round-trip New York-London fare...
...that he had decided not to be a member of the Missouri delegation (which will be pledged to Symington) because he wanted to remain a free agent. With the speculation season in swing, however, speculators began to calculate that perhaps Truman plus McKinney added up to a Harriman-Symington ticket...
Through all of last week's protocol, Goulart took special pains to make one point clear: Brazil is staunchly anti-Communist and he, as Brazil's Vice President, is staunchly anti-Communist as well, despite the fact that his ticket received a Communist endorsement in last October's elections. He summed up the struggle against Communism in his speech to the Senate: "For the U.S. it is mostly an external effort, which can be and is being kept away from the shores of this country by the joint action of your diplomacy and the organization of your...
Died. Fielding Lewis Wright, 60, fiery Mississippi Delta lawyer, 1948 candidate for Vice President of the U.S. on the Dixiecrat ticket, 1½time white supremacist governor of Mississippi (1946-52); of a heart attack; in Jackson. Miss...
Reaction in both parties was as predictable as the announcement itself. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall, who has been predicting an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket almost every hour on the hour for months, described Eisenhower and Nixon as "the greatest pair of candidates ever presented to the American people." The Eisenhower Cabinet applauded when State Secretary Dulles expressed "the gratification I know my colleagues feel that the team this year is again going to be Ike and Dick." The Democrats, who mortally hate and fear Nixon, hoped mightily that his name would hurt the Republicans with independent voters. Democratic National Chairman Paul...