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Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his labor investigating committee reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert...
...would not willingly yield to smallpox," said Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. at a news conference last week, "but I might get it." To Lindsay Almond, the prospect of white and Negro children attending school together was something like smallpox-and he clearly thought Virginia might...
...found in the Pope's failure so far to name new cardinals in Asia or Africa, where the growth of nationalism is presenting the church with some of its thorniest problems and greatest opportunities. It is also considered likely that, in addition to Boston's Richard J. Gushing and Philadelphia's John F. O'Hara, Pope John will name more cardinals in the U.S.-almost certainly in Chicago, the largest U.S. archdiocese of all, whose Archbishop Albert Meyer (TIME, Oct. 6) was thought by some to be still too new in his post for inclusion...
...critter without a contentious bone in his body, and so. by and large, are all his swampland buddies. But now and then Artist Kelly, who has a sharp way of making a point, converts his strip into a sounding board. In 1954 he invented a new character called Simple J. Malarkey. who looked and fulminated so much like the late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy that several newspapers took instant offense. e.g., the Orlando. Fla. Sentinel, dropped Pogo on the grounds that comics should be funny, not preachy. Last week Pogo was again making some of his clients unhappy...
Haydn: The Salomon Symphonies, Vol. I (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Capitol-EMI, 3 LPs). The first six of the twelve famous symphonies Haydn wrote under the sponsorship of London Impresario J. P. Salomon in the late years of his life. Conductor Beecham gives them a fine, forthright reading that underscores their coltish exuberance, plays down their romantic charms...