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...solid years, the Civil Aeronautics Board last week grudgingly authorized his Hughes Tool Co. to buy 56% of Northeast's outstanding stock from New York's Atlas Corp. The consideration that finally turned the tide in Hughes's favor, said the CAB in its caustic decision, was "not whether Hughes Tool Co. could provide efficient management, but whether Northeast would have any management...
Maybe Pulitzer will. In four years in St. Louis, Mauldin amply proved his right to succeed the P-D's famed, caustic Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, who retired...
...Trib let Kennedy have it on a variety of other scores. After Salinger's return from a tour of Russia, the paper front-paged a caustic cartoon that showed the secretary reporting to his boss: "Mr. Khrushchev said he liked your style in the steel crisis" (see cut). The Trib also carried a Page One editorial arraigning the President as the cause of the market decline. Back in the business section, Financial Editor Donald Rogers not only blamed the slump on Kennedy, but called him an "antibusiness" schemer...
...everything Robert Moses praised Buckley's "genuine usefulness, his kindness and courtesy." A message from Attorney General Robert Kennedy mentioned his "distinguished work." And President Kennedy by emissary extolled "his record of legislative performance in the public interest." The New York Times summed it all up in a caustic editorial: "Mr. Buckley, in his 45 years in politics, may have been wrong many times; but on Monday night at the Waldorf he reaped the fruits of being right the one time it counted most...
...their list. But just in case, we have in recent weeks been compiling other lists too. Last week TIME printed four columns of recommendations among gift books, the kind "that deserve to be read (or looked at), not just given." This week's book section contains a somewhat caustic roundup of recent children's books. Our survey of children's records in the Dec. 1 issue was more cheerful: it found and recommended "more than a few moments of genuine magic on microgroove...