Word: washingtons
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AMID Democratic claims of landslide and Republican counterclaims of strength, TIME'S editors decided to make a searching survey of the area that could be of make-or-break impor tance in deciding the balance in the next U.S. House of Representatives. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele traveled to Kansas and Iowa; Denver Bureau Chief Barron Beshoar covered Nebraska; Chicago Correspondent Ed Reingold moved into Ohio; Chicago Correspondent Jon Rinehart reported on Indiana, Missouri and Minnesota; Chicago Correspondent Mark Perlberg filed on Illinois; local correspondents added their on-the-spot knowledge. For the results, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Midwestern...
...Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce and AEC Chairman John A. McCone to represent the U.S. at the funeral services in St. Peter's, Presbyterian Eisenhower accepted an invitation to attend a Requiem Mass for the Pontiff this week at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington...
...Washington National Chairman Butler, already worried over the Orval Faubus effect on northern Negro voters, quickly supported Gravel for his "integrity, candor and intelligence," snapped that the National Committee, which rules on its own membership, will keep Gravel in office until the 1960 convention. Louisiana's U.S. Senator Russell Long, in turn, noted pointedly that the State Committee decides who shall be called a Democrat on the ballot-a strong suggestion that Louisiana might turn thumbs down on the presidential and vice presidential candidates if the rebels do not get their...
While poring over briefs in his Cincinnati office last week, youthful (43) Federal Judge Potter Stewart got a terse telephone call from Attorney General William P. Rogers. Could Stewart catch a plane for Washington right away? Judge Stewart said that his duties on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals were pressing him, asked whether the matter was really important. Rogers assured him that...
Later that afternoon Stewart's wife Mary Ann drove him to the airport. "He was jittery," she recalls. "He kept wondering what had gone wrong." While sitting in his room in Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel that evening, waiting for Rogers to call, Stewart flicked on the TV set and heard, for the first time, that Associate Justice Harold Hitz Burton was retiring from the Supreme Court. "I said to myself, 'My golly, I wonder whether this...