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...April 30 he "verbally" fired Joan-not knowing that she had completed her 90-day probation period just the day before, and thus could not be given the air without formal charges. Joan's union (the Air Transport Division of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks) raised such a howl that Pan Am reinstated her. Last week Joan was back in the news as a pretty pawn in collective bargaining...
...Evening Standard column next day, Churchill burbled. "I was lucky enough to see the Prime Minister last night, and am happily in a position to tell the world that Britain will stand by the U.S. in the Far East." Instantly, there was a howl of outrage. Journalists complained that Churchill had violated the spirit of the hallowed rule that no British reporter may quote directly the informal statements of the Prime Minister on an important or delicate issue. Laborite politicians charged that Macmillan seemed to be committing Britain to fight for Quemoy, alongside...
Just who does Frankie think he is? Thank heavens for those good old Methodists and others who put up a howl in Madison. Frankie Boy has a lot to learn before he is put out to pasture...
Push-Pull Power. Even in such company, a 29-year-old pressman for the Los Angeles Times stood out from the start. Calm, calculating Marion ("Mickey") Thompson had put together an $8,000 streamliner that seemed to howl with speed just standing still. For push-pull power, Thompson remade two 1957 Chrysler engines and geared the first to the front wheels and the second to the back. To soup up the engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed...
...Monetary Fund. There a coolly competent professional international staff delivered a stern lecture, exacted a promise of reform, gave a small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl in Rio would have carried all the way to Washington. Said a foreign diplomat in Washington: "From the U.S. standpoint, it is a good thing to have the lightning go down somebody else's pole for a change...