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...attempt to shoot down the bill came from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters and their lobbyist, Sid Zagri (TIME, July 27), but the quiet power play came from none other than A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself. Making a personal trip to Speaker Sam Rayburn's office last fortnight, cigar-chomping George Meany growled out the facts of life as he saw them. Labor, longtime friend of the Democrats, could not live with the bill as it was being written, he warned. "We can't live with the hot-cargo clause; we can't live with...
...against imperialism." More and more, with all the propaganda arts, Red China is trying to make itself the Communist model for Latin America-even at Russia's expense. Last week a team of Chinese "journalists" wound up a successful friendship tour through South America in Havana, where a fortnight ago plans were announced for a Communist-line Chinese-language daily for Cuba's 30,000 Chinese.*Radio Peking bragged of the warm welcome the team got from Army Boss Raul Castro. "China had Chiang Kai-shek and Cuba had Batista," the station quoted...
Watching these developments, Wall Street began to sweat. Major steel shares worried off several points, and the Dow-Jones index of industrial stocks dipped from 663.56 to 657.13-despite the fact that steelmakers are expected to report high earnings in the next fortnight. To others, the strike was a cause for joy: foreign steel producers heavily stepped up steel shipments to the U.S., hoped to make strong inroads at the idling industry's expense...
...yourself homeowners for as little as $150, reported the task force. It could be built by a contractor for less than $500. At a small additional cost, perhaps as little as $7 per person, the shelters could be prestocked with enough survival supplies to last through a critical fortnight. Since the intensity of fallout radiation diminishes rapidly, survivors in hard-hit areas could start coming out of their shelters after a fortnight and set about the task of reconstruction...
...Fortnight ago, 32 employees of the talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...