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...figure he is. A college dropout, he frequently talks like a tortured composite of Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes. "I am in the process of becoming," he says ?period. He boasts, with absolute seriousness, that "I have a rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business???is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth and there...
Mills works at his job with almost heroic dedication. When he goes home in the evening he carries a load of reading matter on taxes or other Ways and Means business???he seldom reads anything that is not related in some way to the work of his committee. He has almost no diversions, has never taken a vacation trip, never traveled outside the U.S.; the only congressional junket he ever took was to nearby Baltimore. He and his wife Polly (they have two grown daughters) live in the same unfashionable apartment building that they moved into when they first went...
...Business. But once on the course, the pros are all business???and a big business it is. Merely to maintain himself on tour, a professional golfer, without a family in tow, must spend about $12,000 a year. To get by, many a young golfer sells shares of himself to backers who pay him around $200 a week, take back most of his earnings for the first few years. One notably sound investment: Billy Casper, who got an allowance totaling about $24,000 during a two-year period, paid a profit...
With the San Francisco general strike out of the way, the National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna last week got down to its original business???settling the Longshoremen's strike. Its emissaries flew packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes...
...Government. Thoroughly out of temper, NRAdministrator Johnson appeared at Portland, told the Pacific Advertising Clubs' convention: "It is not good business???it is not good Americanism, it is merely madness to say that any set of our people cannot sit down around a table without violence or bloodshed. Strikes are a necessary evil, but, like wars, they never got anything for anybody?unless it was bloodshed and black eyes." Thankfully the General added: "Strikes are happily no longer NRA babies...