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...Laborites made some election propaganda out of the scandal, but much more than politics was involved. Whichever party wins, the case has made it virtually certain that the next Parliament will enact legislation, similar to that in the U.S., to protect Britain's small investors...
Unions have done much good for the country, and will be needed in the future; but when a "nod of the head" can close down entire industries, it is time to enact restraints on big labor similar to those on big business and big government...
There is a school of thought which holds that bullfight bores are more deserving of ball-bat anesthesia than jazz bores, but this school is wrong. A bullfight bore may re-enact Manolete's death spasms, but a jazz bore will replay the same Charlie Parker record, with contrapuntal commentary, until his woofer melts. The public ear has been grievously bent, and therefore any novel about jazzmen that is fresh, authentic and ungummed by cultism is an achievement...
Long Way to Market. While this seems simple common sense, it took eight years to persuade Congress to enact a direct reversal of the old law-under which the burden of proof was on the FDA to 1) show that ar additive in food already marketed was dangerous, and 2) get it banned by court order. Need for the new law has been intensified by speeding changes in U.S. food growing, marketing and eating habits: less and less food is grown at home or near the point of consumption; more and more is shipped great distances, takes longer to reach...
Through its key legislative spokesman and its powerful daily Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram (circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes...