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Powell, who looks like Santa Claus with a shave, twice refused to testify before Senator Homer Capehart's Banking Committee. Last week, called up again, he refused again-to avoid incriminating himself. But other witnesses were more obliging...
Last week Michigan buzzed with candidates for public office. Republican Senator Homer Ferguson graced a Bay City fish fry. His Democratic opponent, Patrick McNamara, until recently a local leader of the pipe fitters' union, gazed with admiring eye on a St. Clair County plowing contest. Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams was out exercising the charm that had won him the title (bestowed by a Republican) of "the Liberace of Michigan politics." His Republican rival, Lawyer Donald Leonard, politicked from Owosso to Kalamazoo...
Republicans in Michigan, as elsewhere, are banking heavily on President Eisenhower's personal popularity. They must fight off criticism of G.O.P. farm policy, and to do so, Homer Ferguson has taken a straight, shrewd Michigan line. Says he: "The rigid price-support program placed most of its emphasis on farm crops which account for less than 10% of the farm income for Michigan farmers...
Pickup. A lawnmower-like magnetic "sweeper" to pick up metal scraps from factory floors has been developed by Homer Mfg. Co. of Lima, Ohio. Prices: from $124 to $856, depending on width and intensity of magnets...
...rising young lawyer with a beautiful wife and a not-so-beautiful Greenwich Village mistress, the ex-sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose wife is unfaithful (he encourages it), the smalltown publisher whose wife is also unfaithful (he would deplore it), and Homer Aswell, who believes he is dead. Miller relentlessly records everything-the brand of cigarettes they smoke, the way they like their Martinis, the jobs they had, the girls they missed, how their houses are furnished, how they take a bath. This may not really add up to a novel, but readers...