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...from Pine Bluff, Ark., blonde, dimpled Martha made the scene first in New York. Her first marriage failed but her second, to Manhattan Bond Attorney John Mitchell, was a good one. Mitchell's $250,000 annual income provided a luxurious suburban home and still left enough to pay the hairdresser. When Daughter Marty was ready, she went to the best schools...
...bluff, barrel-chested Usery faces the challenge with the respect of both labor and management as "the best mediator in the country," to quote Bill Dempsey, the railroads' chief negotiator. Usery rose from welder to become a top negotiator for the International Association of Machinists. So impressive was he at the bargaining table that George Shultz, President Nixon's first Labor Secretary, asked him in 1969 to put aside party loyalties (he is a Democrat) and become an assistant secretary for labor-management relations. That job led to a 1973 appointment as head of the Federal Mediation...
...together the centrist Labour M.P.s and the radical, trades union-based leftists. Which is what he is trying to prove. No replacement for him is in sight, no one acceptable by both wings of the party (the closest available is Jim Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary). By thus calling the bluff of his party rivals, Wilson will be able to return to office with his power and reputation refurbished. The Labour Party cannot afford to do without Wilson at this point in its history. If he leaves office, it will be because he wanted...
...There's difference between fact and bluff," McCurdy avered, "I've done some incredible bluffing to scare some of my runners out of bets I didn't think I could...
...locomotives and upgrade roadbeds and tracks. Rather than wait, several consortiums of mining companies have come up with another idea: building pipelines to carry coal mixed with water from mines to users. The longest line under serious consideration would stretch 1,036 miles from Gillette, Wyo., to White Bluff, Ark. But the pipelines invariably would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument is before Congress, which is expected to pass a bill later this year granting the coal pipelines...