Word: cooperates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piccadilly Circus. In London, when the R.S.P.C.A. complained that she kept a mouse in a cage with a python, Pet Shop Owner Phyllis Cooper showed up in court with both animals, won dismissal by proving that they were practically buddies, provoked the prosecutor to comment: "In no other country would a mouse invoke the protection...
...battle started with a statement by R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for the steel industry, that the industry is considering a mutual-aid pact or even an industrywide shutdown should the union decide to strike one or two firms instead of striking the whole industry at once as in the past. Such a pact would be similar to the profit-sharing pact signed by struck airlines last fall (TIME, Nov. 10), except that the airlines later got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which can exempt airlines from antitrust procedures...
Alarmed by the uproar, Cooper backtracked, allowed that the industry never expected to use such a plan. Said he: "We have never locked out the Steelworkers, nor have we had to consider the problem. It has always been the union that has exercised the full force of its nationwide power to bring the entire industry to a halt in order to enforce uniform demands...
...decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska's Carl Curtis) the Senate overrode the veto 64 to 29 with two votes to sp: re. But Indiana's Charles Halleck, the shrewd minority leader...
...Vatican confirmed that mellowing (57) Cinemactor Gary (Return to Paradise) Cooper, previously an Episcopalian, became a Roman Catholic early in April. Glowed his Roman Catholic wife Veronica, married to Coop for 26 years: "He's very happy about...