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...Leading Deadhead. In the earthy forum of Louisiana politics. Russell has always held his own. Just three years after he went to the Senate, he opposed Uncle Earl by supporting Representative Hale Boggs for the governorship (both Boggs and Earl's candidate lost). Earl, who had previously called Russell "an improvement on his uncle and also on his father," decided he was. instead. "Louisiana's leading deadhead." Russell is not without the Long gift for homey summary himself, once demolished the present Governor, Jimmie Davis, in one simple statement: "He's only got his own personality...
...often dodge the issue. If dissatisfied, they simply sell out and put their money elsewhere. The one man who is still a threat to unbridled corporate power is the raider. Though he is now considered "almost illegal," says Dean Rostow, he performs a useful service by getting rid of deadhead management, or even by carrying on a fight that frightens management into reform. One suggestion for restoring the stockholders' voice: trustees to vote their shares, watch out for their interests...
From the moment Trouper Verdon turns plain Essie into a glittering song-and-dance girl, Redhead stops being deadhead. Her articulate hands, toes and torso are parts of speech and her lines are more pleasing than the script's. Her body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes, as she overtilts a wayward hip or dislocates an amorous shoulder; in marathon-long dances, the stage is her keyboard, and she never hits a wrong note. Under the bravura assurance lies an endearing Chaplinesque poignance. Smiles of delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager...
...railroaders, the U.S. commuter is a deadhead who does not pay his way. Even worse, he is now one out of every two passengers-and last year U.S. passenger traffic went $700 million in the hole. Railroaders have howled for years about commuter losses. But now, they insist, the losses have brought on a rail crisis. Last month the New Haven Railroad announced that it had a $15 million passenger deficit in 1956, asked for outright commuter subsidies from the states. Last week the New York Central, moaning that it is losing nearly $30 million a year on commuters, sued...
...office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your life, Humph, you can show them all that a civil servant isn't necessarily a deadhead...