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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAMILY by Edwin O'Connor. 434 pages. Atlanfic-LiMie, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off Form | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

With each new book he writes, any conscientious author tries to surpass his best previous performance. In the case of Edwin O'Connor, his best previous performance was The Last Hurrah (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an unforgettable portrait of an Irish politician doomed, like the torchlight procession, to extinction. O'Connor's next two novels, The Edge of Sadness and I Was Dancing, fell progressively short of Hurrah's high mark. All in the Family falls shorter still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off Form | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...proposal was endorsed in testimony before Chairman Wilbur Mills's House Ways and Means Committee by three corporate chiefs: A.T. & T.'s Frederick Kappel, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Stuart Saunders and Campbell Soup's William Murphy. They agreed to testify under pressure. Commerce Secretary John Connor phoned Murphy, urged him to testify and to recruit other members of the President's "club" of business advisers to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Day of the Little Bulls | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary John Connor and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien is considered a question mark. In the second and third tiers of the federal bureaucracy and among Democratic officeholders around the U.S., the preference for Bobby is even more pronounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Shadow & the Substance | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...White House meeting, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor opposed any action by the Administration, but they were virtually alone. The President ordered the Budget Bureau and the Treasury to work out some recommendations, put his men to work drafting an economic message that will outline a series of at least half a dozen specific actions. There will almost certainly be no general tax increase right now, partly because Johnson believes that such a hike would hurt Democrats in the coming elections and partly because he feels that asking for it now would give Republicans an excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: A Call for Action | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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