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Determined to break the log jam, Attorney General William P. Rogers told reporters at the American Bar Association convention in Miami last week that President Eisenhower has approved a bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope...
...gave two concerts at Istanbul's bowl-shaped, Open-Air Theater. At the head of the 106-piece New York Philharmonic, Bernstein faced an audience of music-hungry Turks that overflowed the bowl's 5,000 seats, crashed through wooden barriers and stampeded past police lines to jam every aisle and step...
...phone booth. Students in South Africa then pushed the number up to 25. Not to be outdone by foreigners, 32 students at Modesto Junior College, California, claimed to have crammed themselves into one booth. And, the following week, the Oklahoma City University chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha managed to jam 33 of its fraternity brothers into one booth before 1500 cheering witnesses...
...composing room has been invaded by serpents-a ten-foot python, a rare and venomous taipan-which were pelted to death by ingots of type metal. One night a horde of winged ants, attracted by the lights, swarmed in to lay a living veneer on the Linotype machines, jam the works with their bodies; a mechanic imported from Australia had to be shipped home with a nervous breakdown...
This in itself could be labeled just so much horn blowing in a traffic jam, but the effect of Hoffa's campaign, both in Washington and the field, was to embarrass the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which kicked Hoffa out a year and a half ago. Meany is on record in favor of the Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters...