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...hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide. The result was a plank incorporating many ideas set forth by Ted Kennedy in the speech he gave last week at Worcester, Mass. It demands an immediate bombing halt (which the Administration opposes), a cutdown in offensive operations by the U.S. and a phased withdrawal of all foreign troops; but it makes no mention of one of the most contentious issues-a coalition government. Though a floor fight over the plank was virtually certain, the doves' hopes of winning it were all but destroyed...
...given this month by Mrs. John Sherman Cooper, wife of the Kentucky Republican Senator. The notion for the no-ball came to Lorraine Cooper as she brooded over ways to cut down the expenses that inevitably erode the take at charity affairs. Having hit on the ultimate cutdown, she sent out embossed non-invitations describing the charitable work being done by the no-ball's beneficiary, the Cooperative School for Handicapped Children in Springfield, Va. More than a thousand delighted naysayers have already sent in checks with their most gracious non-acceptances...
...cutdown would probably follow the lines set by the President's commission, which the railroads have accepted and the unions summarily rejected. Under the commission's recommendation, some 13,000 firemen with less than ten years' service would be dismissed in the first year; 27,000 others could hold their jobs until retirement, but would not be replaced. Another 20,000 men. mostly switchmen, would be eliminated gradually. The Pennsylvania Railroad, biggest in the U.S., has already announced plans to drop 3,100 firemen...
Trottenberg indicated that University officials have not even considered a cutdown and that present contracts would make it virtually impossible...