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...Labor-reform bills are pending in twelve other states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington. In addition, New York passed a bill this year; Indiana's legislature adjourned without acting on one; and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a mild reform bill...
...gaunt, hollow-cheeked and weary, but very much alive. Last week, pardoned as part of the Cyprus peace settlement, George Grivas arrived home in Athens and was feted like a hero out of Homer. At the airport Grivas strode briskly down the gangway from the Greek Air Force Dakota that had been dispatched to Cyprus to fetch him, and he pushed first to the arms of his wife. He was dressed as he had lived for four hunted years, in brown sweater, brown britches, polished boots. His tan beret had the blue and white letters EOKA crudely embroidered...
Sweeten the Benefits. When V. (for Vestor) J. Skutt took over the presidency of Mutual in 1949 from the late founder Dr. C. C. Criss, he set about building up-and drastically changing-the company. South Dakota-born Skutt studied law at Omaha's Creighton University, and in 1924 entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify...
Previously, Michigan had defeated the Eagles, 4-3, while St. Lawrence bowed to North Dakota in overtime by the same score...
...unnamed "union" and "a large company" had, "within the last year," offered effective political support for brother Jack if Bobbie could get the McClellan committee to play ball. The offers, said Bobbie, were "dismissed," reported to Brother Jack-but not to Committee Chairman John McClellan. In Washington, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, senior G.O.P. committee member, demanded that "the whole nauseating affair be fully explored and publicly exposed...