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Constant Crisis. The steel companies and the Steelworkers Union agreed to a four-month extension of contracts only after Federal Mediator William E. Simkin threatened that he might specify the terms himself-and a few discreet calls were made from the White House. The cost to the companies, which will build an escrow fund to be used as part of the final settlement: 11½? per hour effective this week, or a 2.6% raise, considerably lower than the industry had feared it would have to pay. Lyndon Johnson immediately telephoned his congratulations to the negotiators, taking care to include...
...case to determine whether Gilligan, a 17-year police veteran with 19 citations for meritorious police work, violated any department regulations. It will be under heavy pressure to find against him. Yet it should go without saying that anyone being attacked with a knife has a right to defend himself-and the grand jury displayed no doubt at all about that. Declared George Schuyler, one of two Negroes serving on the 23-man jury: "Our decision was unanimous. I did the right thing, and so did the rest of the jury...
...elections in Panama drawing ever closer, the canal is the campaign's No. 1 issue. While President Roberto F. Chiari is constitutionally prohibited from running again, he does not dare take a soft line for fear of lessening his party's chances. Ambassador Moreno is an opposition candidate himself-and his fire-breathing OAS speech drew loud cheers back home that could not be ignored by the six other candidates. As one irate Latin American diplomat put it in Washington last week: "The Panamanians are running their campaign in the halls...
...free to roast the old man in novels-and frequently do. Fathers, on the other hand, have the advantage of letters. They may not noticeably influence their sons, but instruction is not the prime purpose of a father-to-son letter: its real business is to justify a father to himself-and sometimes to his society-in what Alan Valentine justly calls "the most demanding and least apprenticed" of professions...
Winchell's doctors have cleared him for duty, but Winchell has not cleared himself-and neither has his wife. At week's end she left for the Winchell winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz., near Phoenix, to be followed shortly by her husband on a holiday that Mrs. Winchell expects to last at least through May. By then, Winchell may conceivably feel like returning to his gossip gathering. But Mrs. Winchell is inclined to doubt it. "It may be in the fall," says she. "And it may be never...