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...WILL SUPPORT MY UNION, proclaimed red and white buttons displayed by workers in steel mills across the U.S. last week. It seemed certain that when the 600,000 United Steelworkers vote in a Taft-Hartley election a fortnight hence on whether to accept management's "last offer," the answer will be an overwhelming no. Steelworkers are in wide agreement with the union contention that steel management, in its demand for the right to change plant work practices, is out to bust the union. "We can't go against our union," explained Andrew Szocka, electrician at the U.S. Steel...
Foreign Policy: Columnist Joseph Alsop wrote fortnight ago that Rockefeller "regards the Eisenhower foreign policy as sadly unimaginative and the Eisenhower defense program as grossly inadequate." Viewing Eisenhower policies as "almost Chamberlain-like," Alsop went on, Rockefeller is undertaking to "stake out a neo-Churchillian position...
Starchy Substance. U.S. irritations first broke out into the open fortnight ago when General Nathan Twining, airman head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, bluntly told a "secret" session of NATO's military committee that French obduracy over air defense and atomic weapons was heavily responsible for NATO's inadequate state. When Twining's remarks were leaked to the Associated Press, France's touchy officialdom howled with injured pride. The touchiness increased with the U.S. abstention in the U.N. Assembly vote on Algeria, which France did not take as indifferently as the U.S. expected (TIME...
...Force's college reserve officers' training program as outmoded as the B-17 bomber? Fortnight ago, John D. Millett, president of Miami University of Ohio, posed the question on behalf of 176 college and university administrators gathered for an Air Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C. problems at Maxwell A.F.B., Ala. Continued changes in policy have caused growing tension and occasional open hostility between the colleges and the junior service. Even former Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted to the educators that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program "suggests a considerable amount of lost motion," since only 4,000 officers...
...fortnight ago Dictator Trujillo reversed himself on the marriage with a curt newspaper announcement just a week before the wedding. For society, the marriage creates a unique problem. Confusingly but officially, the Dominican Republic already has two First Ladies, old Dona Julia and the dictator's wife Maria. Now plump and pretty Alma McLaughlin becomes the third...