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...some 1,150 passengers, mostly American or French. Occupying cabins or suites that cost from a minimum of $5,640 to $99,340, they have paid the French Line a total of over $11 million for the cruise, thus setting a new maritime record of sorts. TIME Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell was on board the France as it sailed between New York and Trinidad. Here is his report...
...Edwin G. Warner
...Died. Edwin Weisl, 74. longtime confidant of Lyndon Johnson; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif. An up-from-the-tenements Wall Street lawyer with an earthy demeanor, Weisl first met Johnson at the urging of F.D.R.. who described the lanky Texan as "a live Congressman [with] a fine future ahead of him." Thereafter Weisl helped fulfill Roosevelt's prophecy, advising the Texas Democrat on politics both foreign and domestic for more than 30 years. In 1964, Weisl became Democratic national committeeman from New York, and was considered L.B.J.'s envoy to the state party...
...election of 1904 saw the first Negro run for President. This was George Edwin Taylor of Iowa, a one-time editor of several newspapers. A former delegate to both Republican and Democratic conventions, he became disillusioned with the major parties and was chosen to head the ticket of the newly established National Liberal Party, which revived many of the principles of the defunct Whigs...
...Right Coalition does not rest its belief in libertarianism on moral consistency alone. Through the influence of economists and theoreticians such as Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Von Mises, Morris Tannehill, and Edwin G. Dolan, the group has designed arguments for laissez-faire on practical grounds. The arguments are, in a number of surprising areas, persuasive...