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...centralized wage-fixing system. Indeed, the majority signed a far-reaching 55-point communiqué pledging "to work together to meet the challenge of Australia's economic and social crisis." The summit had, it seemed, achieved the spirit, of cooperation that Hawke wanted. Noted Michelle Grattan, political writer for the Melbourne Age: "The breakthrough was in the vibes, not the decisions...
...aristocrats out on a hunt considered them fair game, along with birds and boar. More than 400,000 of them were murdered by the Nazis in the course of the Holocaust that also claimed 6 million Jewish lives. Even today West Germany's gypsies are openly persecuted. Says Grattan Puxon, general secretary of the Roma World Union, an international gypsy organization based in Bern, Switzerland: "We are the forgotten victims of Fascism...
...Song. Set up by Premier John Diefenbaker three months ago, the Royal Commission on Publications is headed by the Ottawa Journal's president and editor, Michael Grattan O'Leary, also includes John George Johnston, a Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...
Realist. In Oklahoma City, veteran Bootlegger Thomas Eugene ("Red") Grattan, haled into court on eight separate liquor possession charges, declared: "I'm through, boys. I'm going to work for the Government . . . There's more money in that...
...dikes to a flood of other "Government propagandists" (TIME, Feb. 27). But friends of the Voice pointed out that either its reporters needed seats to cover the news, or the U.S. didn't need the Voice. Last week a compromise was worked out : Voice Reporters Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty were admitted to the periodicals (magazine) galleries on an unofficial basis...