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...organizations, among them the powerful Legion, are conducting a high-pressure campaign for bonus legislation, and overseas-capped veterans swarm through the Albany legislative halls urging passage. New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who may face Rockefeller in November's gubernatorial race, has backed the handout. Yet Rocky, who needs all the votes he can get in November, came before the legionnaires to oppose...
...China poured economic assistance into the remote area, there was some question as to whose satellite Outer Mongolia would be. Then last October Russia did Outer Mongolia the favor of shouldering it into the U.N., and boosted its economic aid to $975 million, clearly overshadowing Peking's handout of $115 million. Last week the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party put its mouth where its money is and denounced Albania's "malicious and slanderous attacks" on Moscow. The Mongolian Reds also dared to criticize Red China for not submitting to Soviet ideological supremacy...
Westinghouse and General Electric sponsor a television spectacular on union featherbedding in Newburgh, New York. "Unions have lost touch with morality," Ralph Cordiner, president of GE, explains, "and a free handout is not the American way of being poor. Only through corporation can America reach its purpose." ...President De Gaulle personally leads a march from Paris to the Spanish border protesting the resumption of plastic bomb tests...
...overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity to state with the utmost conviction my wholehearted support for the re-election of Mayor Robert Wagner. His experience in coping with the problems of this great city cannot be matched." Then, with a bravely smiling Wagner...
...Verdi opera, it was consistently melodious, at times truly lyrical. If the plot was melodramatic, it gave hints of Dello Joio's gift for sustained drama, an essential gift for a writer of grand opera and a recompense of sorts for the Ford Foundation's handsome handout...