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...from Paradise Isle. The refreshing switch in this latest packet of nonfiction escape literature is that Barbara Hooton thought of Manhattan as paradise and regarded the wide-open spaces as a disease which Hubby Bill had somehow caught. Her account of the running of a New Mexico dude ranch, as breezily set down by her collaborator and longtime friend, Patrick (Auntie Mame) Dennis, might be subtitled "Auntie Mame Rides Again" or "The Comic Labors of Hercules...
...President threw wide-open the flaps of the G.O.P. tent. "No party," he said, "has a monopoly on brains or idealism or statesmanship. We-Republicans and Democrats alike-are motivated by the same loyalty to the flag, by the same devotion to freedom and human dignity, by the same high purposes for the nation's security and its people's welfare...
Banker from Lincoln. The man who minds Ex-Im's till is Samuel Clark Waugh, 65, a longtime Nebraska banker with a wide-open mind and the appropriately chubby (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) build of a Santa Claus. Going to Washington in 1953 after 40 years with the First Trust Co. of Lincoln, the last seven as president, he took charge of international economic affairs for the State Department, became a vocal and effective champion of freer trade. Traveling thousands of miles in 28 months, Waugh helped write the GATT agreements in Geneva, campaigned for Japan...
...rare concession to party regularity, Morse campaigned for McKay as governor in 1948 and 1950. But since 1952, when Morse bolted the Republican Party in mid-campaign, he and McKay have been the bitterest of wide-open enemies. As Interior Secretary, McKay is the symbol of the Eisenhower policy of "partnership" between Government and private capital on power and natural resources-and Wayne Morse is the symbol of opposition to those "giveaway" policies...
...issue of prostitution brought a vociferous division between respectable citizens and those who gain from Pnompenh's attractions as a wide-open city (Madame Choum intends to enlarge the city's finest brothel, now that Saigon has been shut down as a sin capital). The distinguished wife of a provincial governor snatched the microphone from Norodom's hands and told the congress: "Let's face the truth. We know it's impossible to suppress effectively prostitution in our country...