70 Year Magazine Archive

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Boxed and waiting for rush distribution is Adlai Stevenson’s campaign button reading “Two Strikes Isn’t Out.” . . . AFL-CIO leaders, behind Stevenson in ’56, cool to his candidacy this time. . . . New Jersey Democrats, looking for senatorial candidate, cast an eye on former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, “container” George Kennan. . . . Republican group in Pacific Northwest has started mail campaign aimed at Nixon, recommending “the excellent planks in the 1952 platform, some entirely unused, others with just enough use to season them.” . . . A Cuban cabinet member voiced opinion over Havana TV that Cuban-U. S. relations would improve with a Democratic victory in November.

Official Soviet travel at all-time high with big-shots either in, or en route home from the United States, Liberia, Guinea, the Camerouns, India, Argentina, Cuba. … Khrushchev leaves soon for India, Indonesia, where Asia’s two biggest CP’s are arranging the mass welcomes. … In line with Spirit of Camp David, insiders say CIA has been instructed “not to encourage defection of Soviet citizens.”. . . Tactical victory for Representative Walter: his bill to set up new security system for defense plant workers, on consent calendar, slipped through under nose of House Liberals who failed to recognize it.

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