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Swamps & Pitfalls. Has Estes Kefauver really got a chance? The answer lies only at the end of a tortuous route, beset by every conceivable swamp, pitfall and booby trap known to politics. Kefauver's immediate strategy is to prove his popular strength. He will head, first, into the important primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska, April 1. Wisconsin looks hopeful because the Truman forces are split there. Nebraska puts him squarely against Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. as yet an untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along...
...Country Club in White Plains, N.Y. Jack Burke can teach the game as well as he plays it; his trademarks are long giant-arc hitting, delicately accurate iron shots. A confirmed bachelor, he sees "no chance of my getting married. I've got to stay out of that trap until I get some golfing done...
...They asked me if I had had any correspondence with him. If it had slipped my mind, and I had said 'no,' they could then flash the letter and trap...
Last week in Chicago, an American Bar Association committee added its voice to a chorus demanding that the U.S. pull out of the trap altogether. The committee, which had once approved a U.N. press treaty, reversed its stand. It changed its mind because many editors themselves now feel the proposed U.N. press treaty will put shackles on the U.S. press without freeing the world's press anywhere...
Despite bitter opposition from the U.S., Britain, Scandinavian countries, The Netherlands and others, the second convention-with all its booby trap provisions for the protection of national prestige and the promotion of peace-was passed by a special U.N. committee. (The U.S. plan was approved by the General Assembly, but then shelved, with almost no chance of ever being ratified.) The dangerously restrictive convention is likely to be okayed finally at the fall session of the General Assembly and sent to the U.N. members for ratification, the final step...