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...Tawes organization, by a 123,000-vote margin. Democratic voters also renominated all five of their party's congressional incumbents-and all had voted for the civil rights bill. On the G.O.P. side, Senator J. Glenn Beall, who also supports the bill, easily won renomination over Challenger James Gleason, who doesn...
Divorced. Sammy Cahn, 50, kingpin Hollywood lyricist, author of more than a thousand songs (Three Coins in the Fountain, Love and Marriage), who last week picked up his fourth Academy Award for Call Me Irresponsible, sung by Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition; by Gloria Delson Cahn, 37, onetime Goldwyn girl; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he left her alone at parties); after 18 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
What made Gleason mad was a Maritime Administration ruling permitting Continental Grain Co. to ship 62% of the wheat it had sold to Russia aboard foreign-flag ships. President Kennedy, claimed Gleason, had promised that 50% of the wheat would move in U.S. bottoms. What's more, Gleason said, the new ruling threatened potential jobs for thousands of U.S. seamen. The Mari time Administration insisted that not enough U.S. ships were available to move the wheat to Russia. But the longshoremen charged that this was nothing but a dodge to let the grain companies take advantage of lower foreign...
Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz hurried to Bal Harbour, Fla., to dicker with the labor leader. He got nowhere. Gleason also ignored public pleas from President Johnson...
Finally Johnson made a personal appeal to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, asking him to act as the Administration's advocate with Gleason. Under Meany's prodding, a settlement was reached last week, and the wheat began to move. Gleason agreed to let Continental's arrangements stand. For its part, the Johnson Administration promised that U.S. ships would certainly carry 50% of Russian wheat shipments in the future-provided vessels were available...