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The article is a continuing part of papers on the life of U.S. politician Richard M. Nixon. It was August 1945 and World War II was ending and for the first time in six years Republicans dared turn their attention from the instant peril of Fascism toward the object of their first hatred the New Deal. At that moment, still in the uniform of a lieutenant commander, Nixon was handling contract termination work for the Navy in Baltimore. After joining politics Nixon had the good fortune to learn in his first campaign that there was a trick to winning elections.

The article focuses on a biography on U.S. President Richard M. Nixon by William Costello. When the editors of journal "The New Republic," asked Costello more than a year ago to undertake a definitive study of the Nixon record, they were not in search of pumpkin papers. Many of the particulars were already in print, but the full story had yet to be presented Costello, a Washington political reporter, is a respected veteran in all news media. Although his wide-ranging review of the Nixon career begins at the beginning with boyhood struggles and includes what is perhaps the first complete factual account of his record in Congress and the Vice Presidency, the focus is on Nixon as campaigner

Focuses on political campaigns of Shirley Chisholm, an Afro-American woman politician in the U.S. Reasons given by Chisholm for her support to Senator Harold E. Hughes; Topics of various papers to be released by Chisholm for her campaigns; Information on interview programs that have been signed up by Chisholm; Response of Chisholm to a question on Congress.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. "Eichmann and the Problem of Justice," published in the November 21 issue, which raised the problem of capital punishment in the Eichmann case; Coverage of the election campaign in the U.S., by the daily papers; Information on a campaign that has been started by several graduate students at the Harvard University to give support to the four six-year old girls who are pioneering elementary school integration in the deep South.

Focuses on economic, political, and social developments in the U.S. Overview of inflationary conditions in the country; Comment of Treasury Secretary George Humph on compensatory government spending to fight recession; Apprehension about the existence of inflation; Discussion about the way to hedge inflation in stock market; Predictions about the business recovery in the U.S.; Assessment of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's anti-inflationary polices; Argument pertaining to the political campaign of John Connally, ex-Navy Secretary, who is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Texas; Publication of a journal 'The Petal Paper," by P.D. East, which favors segregation for the Scotch-Irish.

Focuses on the role of the press in two consecutive U.S. election. Comments on the drifting of the press into bias by negation; Comparison between the newspapers published on the first three days of a week in the two consecutive election campaigns; Discussion of the comparative quiet of the papers on the campaign several weeks ago.