Casually ignoring the constitutional provisions that vest in Congress the power and duty to determine the country’s military establishment, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson declared that he would not use the $960 million which Congress explicitly appropriated for the stepped-up production of B-52 bombers.
Senator Jenner’s influence and popularity in his home state were never so evident as in last week’s hotly-contested Republican Convention. The delegates gave a smashing second-ballot victory to Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, Mr. Jenner’s candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. Governor George N. Craig, the state’s leading Eisenhower Republican, had labeled Handley “unacceptable.”
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