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...some members for a local union, then I can get a charter, then I can get some more members, then I can collect dues, then I can have a union treasury, then I can buy a Cadillac, then I can take trips to Florida to confer with other union leaders." Even New York Labor Extortionist Johnny Dio was willing to put out $20,000 of his own money to start a Teamsters' local. Nobody ever accused Dio of caring about the working stiff; it was simply a first-rate investment...
Loyal Rebels. Last week, faced with threat of open (and quite probably bloody) civil war, Sukarno proclaimed a "state of siege and war," asked his dissident military commanders to confer with him in Djakarta. As the colonels began winging in, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo drove up to the presidential palace on a humid tropical night and handed his chief, from a thin blue portfolio, his resignation. To try to put together another government, Sukarno named the little-known head of Sastroamidjojo's Nationalist Party, an ex-mayor of Djakarta named Suwirjo...
...Ghana's U.S.-schooled Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, told Nkrumah that the U.S. is prepared to offer help in the new country's development. He chatted with one of Britain's top emissaries, Lord Privy Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about the forthcoming Ike-Macmillan conference in Bermuda, complimented Britain on her long, mutually profitable role in Ghana. Next day he held an impromptu talk with an American he never had met, Montgomery, Ala.'s bus-boycott leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18), invited King to confer with him in Washington...
...Jerusalem, President David Ben-Gurion interrupted a Cabinet session to confer with U.S. Ambassador Edward B. Lawson on the Gaza crisis...
...students. Reed students do not learn grades unless some of their work is unsatisfactory, in which case they are told C or above is "satisfactory," C- is "barely satisfactory," D is "barely passing," and F is "failing," telling the students in words, not letters. Students and instructors confer regularly about the course work, and Reed avoids public recognition in the form of Dean's Lists, prizes...