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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven years. Principal reason: G.O.P. liberals and Old Guard-ists, after mauling each other, are too beat to put up much of a fight against the smoothly functioning Democratic Party of six-times Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther. Last week word leaked out that the old Republican feud had erupted into a name-calling, table-thumping session starring Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield for the Old Guard and Henry Ford II, financial mainstay of the G.O.P. liberals...
...hour conference with Adlai Stevenson, Pat Brown headed back to California with the an nouncement that he would be "only" a favorite-son candidate. Two days of shoptalk with the Democratic elders had convinced him that he should not be a serious candidate for the presidency. ¶From Washington, word leaked out that Favorite Son Brown might have his sights focused on a lesser prize. In a September conference with Lyndon Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought Missouri's Stuart Symington could. This was enough to start...
...talking clearly of a December summit, to be preceded-perhaps at the end of October-by a pre-summit planning meeting in Paris between Eisenhower, Macmillan, De Gaulle and Adenauer. Then, through "presidential channels" (a category of communication with an even higher security rating than "top secret"), came word from De Gaulle to Ike that he thought summit talks should wait until next spring, and that in the meantime, he had invited Nikita Khrushchev to come visit him in Paris. To his Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this by the end of the year...
Nine Dead. At week's end word reached New Delhi that Chinese and Indian troops had clashed in their bloodiest border battle yet. "Now the fat is really in the fire," cried one Indian official. The fighting took place, New Delhi announced, at a place called Hot Springs in the district of Ladakh, 45 miles from the Kashmir-Tibet border. When two Indian constables failed to return to their camp from a patrol, a searching party of 60 to 70 Indians set out to look for them. From a hilltop Chinese troops opened fire. The Indians fired back...
...word that trips lightly from the tongues of connoisseurs and often falls flat in company is the term "genre" (rhymes roughly with honor), a harmless, precise and useful term from the French. Webster defines genre art as that "in which subjects of everyday life are treated realistically." A brilliant exhibition of 37 American genre paintings from 1835 to 1885 is now touring the country under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. Called "A Hundred Years Ago," it opens next week in New Britain, Conn...