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...scheduled for many parts of the country, but the highlight will come May 3, the Polish national holiday, when thousands of Poles will journey to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, home of the nationally cherished "Black Madonna." The Communist regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which has conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power in Poland. Last week, as the church began the first of its millennium celebrations, the Communists were busy creating every imaginable block and trying to convert the millennium into a purely...
Sitting on Situs. Nonetheless, Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from...
...latest outburst of the JarmanHoving feud came last week, and it concerned control of Julius Garfinckel & Co., which runs not only the District of Columbia's highest quality fashion store, but also, as a subsidiary, Manhattan's famed Brooks Brothers. For at least six years, Hoving has tried, and failed, to take over Garfinckel & Co. Jarman recently made a tender offer of $43.50 per share for 575,000 of Gar-finckel's 1,075,000 outstanding shares. At a press conference, Jarman said that Garfinckel's was a "pretty sleepy" company, which had neglected its opportunities...
...councillors themselves were bitter at each other because of the city manager feud...
...since he flacked for Fanny he has refined his methods. By cultivating a public character, he has set up a walking advertisement for his shows; by involving that character in a sensational series of front-page fratches, he has kept those shows in the public eye. His first big feud was with Jackie Gleason, who started missing performances of Take Me Along when it was coolly received by the critics. David decided that Gleason was malingering, ordered a private detective to sit detectably in a tree outside Gleason's house. After a few days of that, and a few weeks...