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Last week the G.O.P.-Southern Democratic House coalition got behind sterner, identical bills filed by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. In an advance nosecount, the coalition could only muster 209 votes for Landrum-Griffin-ten short of the 219 needed to win. Results:1) the President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate...
Stepping down last January after four years as Governor of Georgia, frog-voiced, race-baiting Marvin Griffin left some mighty scuffy footprints on the sands of time. Griffin aides and allies, including his brother Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand...
...Parks Director Brinson still face a six-count fraud indictment for their original overcharge to the state. But when they will come to trial is uncertain. Georgia's court dockets are getting more and more crowded, as the state wipes out the footprints left by the Marvin Griffin administration...
...North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying to stand up under the white man's burden...
Washburn's characters are solidly amusing. In the part of Jack, Richard Dozier performs with gusto and vehemence. And Mikel Lambert, in her farewell to the Harvard stage, draws a neat little caricature as his hollowing wife. Other sketches are by Swan, Schwartz, and Griffin, again, and by Linda Gerstenfeld...