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...flew to Chicago to help Pal Joey. At a mass meeting of drivers, he blasted Abata, warned that "he wants to take away your bargaining power." He also pulled a typical Hoffa trick. Just as onetime Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had been brought into court four years ago to impress eight Negro jurors when Hoffa was on trial for bribery, the Teamsters' boss enlisted Track Star Jesse Owens to impress Local 777's large Negro membership. Said Owens: "The situation of some Negro cab drivers is pretty good now. It wasn't when I first came here...
Question of Ambition. Why had Bourguiba chosen this moment for his gambit? One guess was that he was trying to impress Algeria's rebel F.L.N.. which last week resumed talks with the French at the Chateau de Lugrin, near Evian. In the five weeks since France broke off the talks, the F.L.N. has increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey...
...military manpower and increasing its military budget by one-third. Prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this latest military review will pass under the eye of General Maxwell Taylor, the White House's new military adviser, before it reaches President Kennedy. Its major purpose: to impress the seriousness of the coming crisis upon the U.S. public...
When Ramses built his temple, he probably expected it to impress the world until the end of time. He certainly did not dream that 3,185 years after his death a gigantic dam would block the Nile, and a long winding lake would creep gradually upstream to cover the temple's site with 190 ft. of water. But that is what is happening. Unless the ancient temple can be protected, the water backed up by the Aswan High Dam will submerge and probably crumble...
Senator Goldwaters statements impress me as being logical, clearheaded and well-reasoned out, with the best interests of America at heart. He has converted...