Word: bille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill now goes to the House Rules Committee, which seems likely to grant Mills' request that debate be limited to four hours and that no amendments be allowed. From there, it will go to the full House, where Mills and Byrnes are certain of passage this week. In fact, Mills is so sure of his votes that he did not even bother to take his usual meticulous head count...
Enhanced by Bill Cosby's performance as host, the hour-long Children's Theater special concentrated on segments of the film shot by ten fledgling cameramen, aged 5½ to 12. In the best sequence, Eddie Betancourt, the 12-year-old son of a farm worker, created a haunting atmosphere by juxtaposing scenes of living and dead birds encountered on his photographic tour. Christopher Merry, a disarming six-year-old from Los Angeles, used both his own drawings and shots of lush foliage to make a delightful film about an imaginary island he would some day like...
Only two months ago, Prime Minister Harold Wilson told the House of Commons: "The bill is an essential bill-essential to the balance of payments, essential to full employment. It is an essential component in ensuring the economic success of the government." Wilson was staking his credibility on the proposal of Mrs. Barbara Castle, the fiery Minister of Employment and Productivity, to empower the government to intervene in labor disputes. Last week, Wilson abandoned that first basic British labor reform in 60 years...
...Prime Minister capitulated after members of the Trades Union Congress voted 8,252,000 to 359,000 against the bill, which included provisions to fine wildcat strikers. Bowing before labor's overwhelming opposition, Wilson even promised to scrap penalties in any labor-reform measure for the lifetime of his government...
...agencies are starting up to serve the need, though most of them bill less than $1,000,000 annually. Last week, for example, Zebra Associates opened shop in Manhattan with an integrated staff. The agency is a partnership between Raymond League, a former account executive at J. Walter Thompson, and Joan Murray, a correspondent for Manhattan's WCBS-TV. Their biggest account is the national campaign for All-Pro Chicken, the franchising chain headed by Brady Keys, retired professional football star. Zebra's admen are not the least self-conscious about using heavy Negro dialect in their...