Week of October 8, 1956
Campaigning - President Eisenhower is hailed by big crowds
in Pittsburgh. In Seattle, Adlai Stevenson tells his audience
that the “undue delegation of responsibility and authority by the
President” is hazardous” in this Atomic Age and “diminishes
the office of the presidency.”
Vice President Nixon says that insofar as his campaign
schedule permits, he intends to “nail personally on the spot
every distortion and every misrepresentation of the Eisenhower
record” by Adlai Stevenson.
President Eisenhower defines the central issue of the 1956 campaign as “the
management of America’s affairs at home.” He said foreign policy has not
become a basic issue.
Suez crisis - the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Egypt report to a secret
meeting of the U.N. Security Council that they had agreed on a set of six
principles as a basis for further negotiations on the Suez problem. The Security
Council accepted the six principals for continued negotiation.
President Eisenhower hails with a “prayer of thanksgiving” the preliminary
agreement on the Suez dispute at the United Nations. “It looks like there is a very
great crisis that is behind us,” announced the President.
Asst Atty. Gen. Warren Olney says that thousands of Negroes have been
deprived of their right to vote in Louisiana and other southern states.
October 14 - the President’s birthday is “National Ike Day” and will be climaxed
by a TV show (
see ad
). He’ll be 66.
Capt Jacques-Yves Cousteau
, the
French undersea explorer who helped set
off a world-wide wave of enthusiasm for
skin diving by co-inventing the aqua lung
and by writing the new film “The Silent
World,” warns youngsters against buying
diving hear and going under water without
instruction. “Silent World” is a film covering
