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...clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford's economic policies. Pointing a stubby finger of alarm, Meany warned that unless someone did something and did it fast...
Asked at Bal Harbour if he had confidence in Secretary of State Kissinger, Meany quickly replied: "Oh my God, no." Then he added: "I think his policy [the pursuit of detente] has got to lead us to an eventual disaster. His policy is a give-away policy. It's not a relationship between two sovereign nations ... I say this is a policy of appeasement, just plain, ordinary appeasement...
Roberto Clemente Park, where the march is assembling, is where Boston curbs its dogs and under the glumping sky it's schlepping back into the harbour. As the morning wears on, the dog shit, the mud, and the rain get churned into a fine mess by 5,000 pairs of feet. Globe's estimate. The "Fred Hampton contingent, one of the many groups reaching today, is huddled about some low concrete stands on the far side of a baseball diamond. Murdered in 1969 by the F.B.I. and the Chicago police Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader advocated a class...
...WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by Richard M. Ketchum. 275 pages. American Heritage. $25. "I am embarked on a wide Ocean, boundless in its prospect and from whence, perhaps, no safe harbour is to be found." The message has a contemporary ring just now, but its words were offered in June 1775 by George Washington after he agreed to become the first commander in chief of the new Continental Army. With textblocks and many illustrations, plus graceful historical essays, Editor and Popular Historian Richard Ketchum creates a sound and extraordinarily detailed portrait of the man and his times during the years...
...capital gains shelter for Burr called Harbour Productions Unlimited because it made enough off the show to give Burr a little extra on the side...