The U.S. people made the biggest political news last week. They would rather have Ike Eisenhower for President than anyone else. A Roper poll showed that General Eisenhower, if he were the Republican candidate, would overwhelm Harry Truman; that if he were the Democratic candidate he would soundly beat any of the leading candidates (only Harold Stassen would give him a close race).
Ike had said no so often that the poll would probably not start the G.O.P. drums rolling for him at Philadelphia. But to Republicans, the New York Herald Tribune pointed the poll's warning: "What is proved...
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