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...first-year appropriation to $4 billion. Then, at five minutes past the next midnight, 31 Republicans joined 38 Democrats to approve the Economic Cooperation Act, 69 to 17, in just about the form in which Vandenberg had originally proposed it (TIME, March 1). Bob Taft, who had a train to catch, did not even stay for the final vote-he was paired...
...Europe would pass-and probably soon enough to undercut at least some Communist propaganda in the Italian elections next month. The House, which was still planning to combine ERP with all other foreign aid projects in one omnibus bill, was heading for an April 1 passage. That gave Arthur Vandenberg 18 days to iron out the last differences in conference...
Douglas MacArthur, Torn Dewey and Harold Stassen got most of the play in the political headlines and over the radios last week, but the man who was showing the biggest gains in the Republican presidential sweepstakes was Arthur Vandenberg. This week the Gallup poll clocked the race, confirmed what many a GOProfessional had already guessed: in the six weeks since Ike Eisenhower dropped out, the Michigan Senator's popularity had more than doubled; the declared candidates had neither gained nor lost much ground...
...Bandwagon Zip. Many GOPoliticians were privately talking Vandenberg up as the strongest man to whom the party could entrust its interests and the nation...
...develop more zip than he had shown in New Hampshire. In Wisconsin (April 6), Stassen will be on friendlier ground, and General MacArthur will have the benefit of some advance spadework in his home state. In Nebraska (April 13), almost every avowed and unavowed candidate's name (including Vandenberg's) is on the free-for-all ballot...