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...strike benefits for idled Guildsmen-or to make him help support them with deductions from his paycheck. - Even though current contracts do not expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another disastrous strike. The mayor's impatience was understandable. He has been vainly seeking to arrange just such a peace parley ever since the strike ended last March...
...with his wife and two children arrived with 526 fellow immigrants on the liner Empress of Britain: "After all, there is trouble everywhere." But won't the new arrivals be sickened at the sight of apartheid? Predicts one observer: "After the initial revulsion, they will, like their predecessors, avert their eyes...
...their shoulders and removing their hats. An air of amiable amateurishness is carefully cultivated in Britain's public schools, and often seems to pervade its diplomacy. On the eve of World War II, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax drawled: "I distrust anyone who foresees consequences and advocates remedies to avert them...
Despite all the tall talk that there would be no new legislation, the Kennedy Administration had begun working up a wheat bill before the President's death to avert a politically damaging decline in farm income. Last week President Johnson was on the phone repeatedly with congressional farm leaders, pleading for passage of a new bill before February. In St. Paul, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told the National Farmers Union that "a wheat program will be necessary." And in Chicago, where 5,000 farmer-delegates of the conservative American Farm Bureau Federation were holding their 45th annual convention...
Somehow, the Crimson managed to avert catastrophe until the last quarter of play, but then Harvard's copious mistakes finally caught up with...