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...sales from its consumer products. Last week G.E. threw in the sponge. To dealers and distributors went a letter canceling Fair Trade contracts on the company's prices. Said G.E.: "We have abandoned our policy because we have found it inoperable." Within three days, half a dozen other diehard Fair Traders, including Sunbeam Corp., McGraw-Edison Co. (Toastmaster), Ronson Corp., and Schick Inc., followed G.E.'s lead, dealing the hardest blow yet to the list price as a factor in U.S. retailing...
...Kennedy encouraged the North (and annoyed the South) by voting, unsuccessfully, to retain Part III, which would have given the Attorney General extraordinary powers to enforce civil rights-a position stronger than the President's own. Then, having consulted three Harvard professors, he pleased the South (and infuriated diehard Northern liberals) by voting for the amendment requiring jury trials in criminal (but not civil) contempt cases...
Died. Herman Welker, 50, outspoken, aggressive one-term (1951-56) Republican Senator from Idaho, diehard reactionary and staunch McCarthy supporter; of a brain tumor; in Washington...
...proved himself every inch the mediator. As a member of the faculty committee on privilege and tenure, he was largely responsible for protecting facultymen from unfair persecution and dismissal, but he went about his job in so levelheaded a manner that he was able to placate even the most diehard conservatives on the board and in the legislature. By the time the American Association of University Professors got ready to censure the university, he was able to declare the move "unjustified and singularly inappropriate." He angered some alumni by refusing to give large subsidies to athletes ("hired gladiators," he called...
Occasion for the argument: the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden, considering a proposal to permit women ministers. Two years ago the Swedish Parliament recommended ordination of women (at the time, one diehard stormed that he would never confess* to a female because women were notoriously unable to hold their tongues...