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...settlement in prospect) as the "most one-sided, unfortunate and unfair action in this Administration's history." Top A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders have forgiven him for his sponsorship of labor reform, have even publicly praised him for trying to "get rid of the more obvious injustices" of the Landrum-Griffin reform bill...
...luster of a courageous, statesmanlike legislator. Yet in his 14 years in the House and Senate, he has never fathered any major legislation. He worked hard on the Senate labor-reform bill (TIME, Sept. 14), but it got so ground up in the congressional mills that the enacted Landrum-Griffin version did not even carry his name (for which he came to be very thankful...
...billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested to her that they should quietly run away together. Hope declined, conjectured that cops would soon overtake them...
...Traveling to Toledo last January, Oregon's volatile Democratic Senator Wayne Morse delivered a lecture on labor legis lation to the Toledo local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Last week Wayne Morse, the only Democratic Senator who voted against the Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill last year, volunteered that he had collected a standard lecture fee, $500 and expenses, from the Teamsters for his Toledo talk. Then he made a fine distinction: the fee was paid by the local, not by International head quarters. Said Morse primly: "I wouldn't accept a fee from [Teamster Boss] Jimmy...
...Unions. Since it seemed that Kennedy was thus being slowed down, there was talk that a movement to "stop" him was forming. Word spread in the press that United Mine Workers' ex-President John L. Lewis would never forgive Kennedy for his role in passing the 1959 Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill (called Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin in the UMW Journal). And West Virginia's freshman U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, a strong Lyndon Johnson man, announced openly: "If you are for Adlai Stevenson, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Johnson or John Doe, this primary may be your last chance...