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...airlines geared for battle against the proposed tax on jet fuel. The President called for prompt action on his entire package, but with Congress heading toward adjournment in early summer, one Capitol Hill insider prophesied: "It doesn't look as if there will be a helluva lot of legislation coming out of this message this year." Chances for action this year are dimmest for Kennedy's most meaningful and controversial proposal-to cut the floors out from under bulk commodity and farm-product rates. Prospects are much brighter for early enactment of the two proposals sure to prove...
...important pressures for settlement on both sides, but even heavier pressure came from the Kennedy Administration, whose powers over tax, labor and antitrust laws make quite a nutcracker. Sighed one union official: "Let's face it-we're going to be living with the Kennedys for a helluva long time." This, according to one insider, is what the Administration did: One day last December, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg had as his private lunch guest U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, who is the steel companies' chief bargainer and was Goldberg's adversary...
...rough side of his tongue. Taking tea with 70 members of the Japanese Bar Association, Kennedy paid tribute to Japan's postwar recovery, called it a triumph of the democratic system of government. One of the lawyers thanked him for such "flattery." Snapped Bobby: "This is a helluva long way to come just to natter somebody. I can do that back home." When a delegation of Socialist legislators spoke some stereotyped criticisms of the U.S., Bobby demanded to know why they never seemed to say anything against the Soviet Union or Red China. "Just how many times," he asked...
After graduation from Harvard, he landed a job as the only reporter on a newspaper in West Point. Miss. When he ran a piece in THE REPORTER magazine. Houghton Mifflin commissioned him to write a novel. "I had a helluva lot of spare time in the morning and afternoon," he said. "I wrote a book about people that interested me, about an incident as I knew it to happen...
...beginning to look forward with anticipation to the Kennedy era. Said Seafarers Union Skipper Paul Hall of the tugboat strike: "The railroads got the hell kicked out of 'em. Now that the railroad brotherhoods have seen this, they got blood on their teeth. They will be a helluva lot tougher...