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After reporters clearly established that the fix was on. the Portland papers called in the police and the FBI. In Detroit authorities learned that "Harry Valk" was Harry H. Balk, a shadowy freelance booking agent who had not only collected the prize money wired from Portland but had won $4,400 on his own last December in a puzzle contest in the Chicago American. Last week Balk was hibernating in Brooklyn. The probability that the fix was bigger than Balk arose when Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the U.S. Senate rackets committee, disclosed that racketeers had attempted to bribe...
...airline. Eastern, moved a step toward settling its five-week-old walkout, which costs it $1,300,000 a day. Its striking machinists voted to accept a three-year package that brings top pay to $2.95 an hour. Eastern is still negotiating with its engineers, who balk at company orders that they must take pilot training to fly on jets...
...blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved ways of earning a living. Parents refuse to send their children to public schools beyond the eighth grade-a quirk that has got the Amish into trouble with state and county authorities (TIME, March 24). The strictest members of the sect balk at social security levies on the grounds that I Timothy 5:8 and other Bible passages command them to take care of their own. And they do: records in Wayne and Holmes counties show not a single case of an Amishman seeking public assistance of any kind...
...estimated 5,000,000 hunting dogs that will be roaming the autumn landscape, only a small percentage are formally registered by their owners, many of whom balk at the expense and bother. But the vast majority are purebred nonetheless and, as many a fond owner will testify, prove just as efficient in the field as those whose ancestry is a matter of record...
Better Ballpoint. Paper Mate brought out a ballpoint pen which writes easily on grease-smeared paper or slick surfaces that usually balk ballpoints. The pen has a new ink containing a detergent that cleanses the writing surface. Price...