Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio: If Republican Incumbent C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42, ever had a chance for reelection, he muffed it when he came out in favor of Ohio's right-to-work referendum. For patient, politically magic Mike Di Salle, 50, onetime chief of Harry Truman's Office of Price Stabilization, who challenged O'Neill unsuccessfully two years ago, that cinched it. Counting on a heavy labor vote in highly industrial Ohio, as well as widespread dissatisfaction with Governor O'Neill, Di Salle was not disappointed. His winning margin: 3 to 2. Right-to-work...
Missouri's Harry S. Truman, back in 1948 form ("I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell"), showed off his widest swings for an intimate, friendly audience of 2,300 in Wilmington, Del. "Eisenhower went to Korea and surrendered to the Communists," he said. The Administration has lost most U.S. friends abroad "by doublecrossing them at every turn in the road." He also paid his tribute to Vice President Nixon for campaigning with "verbal garbage...
Between World Wars, Strauss prospered in the Wall Street investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Named an AECommissioner by Harry Truman in 1946 after serving as a deskbound rear admiral in World War II, he won a reputation for independent hardheadedness by pushing for an H-bomb program in 1949 against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman...
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (179 pp.)-Truman Capote-Random House...
Holly is the heroine of the long title story in this four-story collection and the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys of Truman (The Muses Are Heard) Capote. Her unhousebroken style of life has already barred her from the intellectual drawing room of Harper's Bazaar, whose editors bought the story but did not print it. Holly is really more to be pitied than censored, more waifish than raffish, a bad little good girl, alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made...