Even if he had not made the speech he did. the annual convention of the powerful (613,000 members) National Education Association would undoubtedly have given Adlai Stevenson a healthy round of applause. Instead, it gave him a standing ovation, for he had told his audience exactly what it wanted to hear. President Eisenhower, said Stevenson, now proposes to spend $45 on highways to every $1 he proposes to spend on schools. "I must deny that this 45-to-1 ratio . . . represents the standards or the priority of the people of America." Thereupon....
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