Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nomination of Municipal Judge Francis Morrissey to a new Massachusetts district judgeship. A gladhanding Democratic politician, Morrissey has had little trial experience as a lawyer, but he is a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy's and a former campaign aide of the President's. Anyhow. Justice officials insist that they will improve at least slightly on the box score of Dwight Eisenhower, who made 189 judicial appointments-only eleven of them Democrats. Likely spots for G.O.P. district judges: Kansas, Iowa and New York, which each have two Republican Senators...
...many railroaders have failed to move with the times, so have public attitudes toward the railroads. Despite dwindling railroad profits, the powerful rail unions insist on preserving many work rules that date back to 1919, still keep some 35,000 useless firemen riding modern diesels. All told, the railroads estimate, union featherbedding costs them $500 million a year. Similarly, state and local governments continue to tax railroad property an average 9% of assessed valuation v. 3% to 4% for other property. Compared with competing means of transportation, the railroads claim to be overtaxed by $140 million a year...
...Boss Dean Rusk free to follow the global swirl of high policy. But Bowles, used to being top man, never stopped spinning off grand ideas, reshaping the world to his taste. (He kept pushing for his pet Mekong River project in Southeast Asia so hard that even his aides insist he really has only two speeches: the Mekong River speech and the non-Mekong River speech...
Misalliance (Shaw would insist on spelling the word with a robustly English "i") is a ridiculous play, a fantastical play: it has an absurd plot with nine outlandish characters, it is appallingly epigrammatic, it ridicules all while instructing none--an impossible play, in short, and just the thing for a hot July night...
...mustached, ex-Coldstream Guards officer who was captain of cricket at Eton and won his blue at Cambridge. Though a four-way fight for first place in the U.S. Scotch market is shaping up. Cobbold is certain that there is one tactic he will not use: price cutting. "We insist," says he grandly, ''on being the most expensive nonaged Scotch on the market." And J. & B. is just that, usually selling at about 20? more per fifth than competing brands in the big four...