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...watching a corps of almost nude ballerinas rehearsing as slave dancers-and waiting. Taylor did not show. Eddie Fisher arrived in a green Rolls-Royce and a matching polo shirt and began to mumble apologies. Spouting uncourtly remarks and parliamentary rhetoric, nine lawmakers-including New York's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee-left the set. The remaining three loyally remained and were finally ushered into Cleopatra's dressing room...
...They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt got 103,000 against Wagner's 136,000. Even in Harlem, where Preacher-Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose word is usually accepted as gospel, was supporting Levitt, Wagner won handily...
...Tillinghast, whom the trustees had put in to run TWA. On one occasion Hughes threatened to bring suit against the airline for ignoring his wishes. Last week, instead. TWA's management filed suit against Hughes. Hughes Tool Co. and Raymond Holliday for alleged violation of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. TWA's avowed hope: to win a court order obliging Hughes to get rid of all stock in TWA and to cease trying to exercise control over the line...
Facing up to the horrendous choice between New York City's three Democratic candidates for mayor, the Pied Piper of Harlem, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, bestowed his anxiously awaited blessing on Organization Man Arthur Levitt. "New York City," prophesied the apocalyptic Adam, "is absolutely finished if affable, personable, charming, likeable, ineffective, weak Bob Wagner is returned to office...
...Chicago to harangue the local branch of the N.A.A.C.P., Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell urged the ouster of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany on an unexpected charge: absenteeism. Noting that Meany refused to "tear himself away from the Florida sunshine to testify on the important minimum-wage bill," Powell, who usually plays his own hooky in Puerto Rico, evaluated the onetime Bronx plumber as "stupid" and "absolutely zero as a lobbyist and leader...