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Like most legislation, the present bill has been dictated more by political considerations than what would be ideal. It has all of the defects pointed out by President Eisenhower--inadequate control of secondary boycotts and "blackmail" picketing as well as its failure to define the relative positions of the National Labor Relations Board and the states--but it is a bill, and a reasonably satisfactory one. It has been buffeted by the amendments of McClellan, whose position in Arkansas depends to some degree on his keeping unions out of the state. It has been attacked as too weak...
Sensing disquiet and confusion about his attitude toward a summit meeting, President Eisenhower told his press conference: "I want to make this very clear . . . [No one] can command anybody else to come to a summit meeting. And you can't bluff them or blackmail them or anything else. This is to be a meeting, if there is one, of heads of government who are acting voluntarily and because of their beliefs in the possibilities with some kind of grounds for such a belief that real measures can be discussed profitably by all of us." He stressed that a foreign...
WASHINGTON, March 25--President Eisenhower warned Nikita Khrushchev today that the Soviet Premier can't order, bluff or blackmail him into attending a summit conference...
...Another possible response, based on the same risk of war, was to search desperately for concessions that might appease Khrushchev's appetites. Newspapers were full of such speculations, but no one in responsibility in Western governments talked that way, because it implied simple surrender to Khrushchev's blackmail...
...only unfailing source of power and passion in the play is the bravura performance of Geraldine Page. Whether she is thrashing about in bed crying for her oxygen mask after a days-long vodka-and-goofball binge or clawing apart her hired paramour's tape-recorded blackmail scheme, Actress Page is just what the character she plays fears, "the tiger in the nerves jungle." Whenever she stalks offstage, the play exits with...