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...libel judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow whom Powell labeled on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
Even when that time of decision ar rives, Johnson, being Johnson, has hopes of keeping everybody happy. "When I was a boy," he says, "one kid would put his arm up between two other kids and say, 'The one who spits over my arm first is bravest.' And one would spit and hit the other one and then there was a fight. I try to avoid all that, just as I try to avoid saying ugly things about labor, industry, the farmer, any group in this country...
...honest solutions to these problems." The President had replied in good nature that he could well afford: "I thank you for your expressed desire to cooperate in the work that faces us all in the days and weeks ahead." Sundown & a Cedar Fire. Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, just ar rived at the ranch from Minneapolis, clumped gamely along at Johnson's side, wearing a pair of size 1 1 cowboy boots on his size 8 feet and a five-gallon hat on what appeared to be a six-gallon head. Just as manfully, he smacked his lips with...
...Keefe has concluded that the arėtes are volcanic, are probably made of stiff lava forced out of parallel cracks in the moon's crust. Some of them may have erupted during the moon's youth. Much more recently - 100 million years ago or less - one of the cracks may have opened agan and oozed laval to form a cluster of low black mounds on a plain that was already thickly peppered with debris from young Tycho...
...Solution. Some Wall Streeters ar gue that the tax, which is expected to pass by spring, will seriously weaken New York's carefully cultivated role as the leading international money market. Other bankers in the U.S. and Europe disagree, believing that borrowers will have to come back despite the higher rates simply because there is not enough ready capital in Europe to satisfy world demand. Probably no U.S. action-other than the unthinkable step of ending the nation's free capital market tradition by closing out foreigners altogether-can stem the outflow of investment capital from...