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Since 1948, his close alliance with U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther has helped G. Mennen Williams overcome the violent opposition of Michigan industrialists, win five elections for governor. But in a national presidential election...
...Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers worked so hard to build...
...Laureano Gómez rode a wheelchair to the polls in Colombia last week-and rode away from the election a revitalized political strongman. Less than five years ago, Rightist Gómez was ousted by military coup from power as a hated dictator; only six months ago he returned from banishment in Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with...
...become one of the finest choral groups in the U.S. The man who started to lead the Harvards to serious music in 1912 (despite the anguished protests of many an old alumnus) was Conductor Archibald Thompson Davison. The man who has kept them up to the mark is G. Wallace ("Woody") Woodworth, and last week he too celebrated an anniversary: his 25th year as glee club conductor. Woody himself went out for the club as a Harvard freshman, was firmly turned down by Conductor Davison, who told him: "With your ear, you ought to be playing drums in the band...
...wicked fame, and children were spanked for reading her; in an age that would call a bed a bed only if it was a deathbed, Ouida called it a great bouncing ottoman. Her novels (most famed: Under Two Flags) were admired by writers as sophisticated as Max Beerbohm and G. K. Chesterton, who wrote: "Though it is impossible not to smile at Ouida, it is equally impossible not to read...