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When he deplaned at the Indianapolis airport, Eisenhower had reached the final stop of his first campaign tour (nine states, 13 cities). At Butler University fieldhouse, Eisenhower tore into the Democrats. He had never sounded more aroused as he pounded in oratorical wrath at "the mess in Washington." Ike poured...
From Faneuil Hall back across Massachusetts, taxpayers howled their indignation last week; seldom since the Boston Tea Party had there been such a civic outcry. The target of public wrath: new pensions for old pols...
...rich deserts and teeming cities where Africa, Asia and Europe converge, revolution, nourished by nationalism and by the slow wrath of miserable peasants, threatened to whisk away all forms and institutions that lack roots in the Middle East's history. Most in danger were the quasi-constitutional monarchies cultivated in the Middle East by British imperialism. They have all the trappings of democracy but little of its spirit. Middle Eastern parliaments represent the ruling classes, but not the ruled; "public opinion" is manipulated, law courts too often protect the rich against the wretched; taxation is designed to promote...
...delegates to the annual convention of the National Education Association trooped into Detroit's Masonic Temple last week ablaze with indignation. Object of their wrath: the American Legion, a longtime ally of the N.E.A. on a joint educational committee, but a frequent critic of progressive education in U.S. schools. In the June issue of its monthly magazine the Legion had printed an article entitled "Your Child Is Their Target," which branded the N.E.A. leadership as "one of the strongest forces today in propagandizing for a socialistic America...
Novelist John (Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck, the Reds' favorite U.S. proletarian novelist even after the cold war began, is now an outspoken antiCommunist. Last week, in Italy on assignment from Collier's, Steinbeck heard a haunting voice from his past. In an open letter published in the Communist L'Unità (circ. 800,000), Italy's largest daily, a contributor named Ezio Taddei asked what Steinbeck thought of 1) the wickedness of American soldiers, 2) germ warfare in Korea, and 3) General Ridgway. Cried Taddei: "Let your voice be heard, John Steinbeck, and it will...