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...Down the Drain? Caught between camps were Southern moderates and erstwhile Northern liberals, e.g., Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Idaho's boyish Frank Church, Washington's Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, Montana's Mike Mansfield, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, who had voted in Congress for a watered-down civil rights bill on which both North and South could agree. Chief architect and proud father of the compromise was Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who last week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough...
Said one knowing New York Harriman Democrat gloomily: "Until Little Rock we figured we were going to make great gains in '58. The way things look, we may be down the drain for the next 15 years, and Nixon is the great civil rights champion. If Ike and the Southern governors compromise, the Democratic Party is compromised but not lost. If they don't, we're not just split-we're amputated...
...powerful TV networks will wage the strongest campaign against the pay system. So will their admen and the moviehouse operators, who stand to lose business. They argue that pay TV will drain the free networks of talent, penalize the majority in favor of the minority that would be able to pay for a better show. Cracked CBS President Frank Stanton: "Television could not long remain half free and half...
...with swift and painful force. In the first big cutback of the current economy drive, the Air Force last week issued a curt announcement that North American Aviation's rocket-and-ram-jet Navaho intercontinental guided missile was being washed out of the U.S. defense program. Down the drain went a project that has taken eleven years and between $500 million and $700 million to bring the Navaho within a few weeks of full-scale test flight. With it went the promise of another $1 billion in contracts for North American had the missile gone into full production...
Despite their drain on the contractor's pocket, the machines that cost as much as $100,000 apiece save plenty of money in the long run. Contractors can get 66% more work with the same labor force as only nine years ago. Today's machine operator is a specialist who may make up to $15,000 a year, and it costs little more to have him operate a larger machine that can do more work. Since the average machine pays for itself long before wearing out, contractors figure they can afford $30,000 in new equipment to eliminate...