Word: keys
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...FRANK KEY WELL Santa Ana, Calif...
Nice Blend. At week's end, Johnson could rate his Northern foray a success. Massachusetts, of course, is Jack Kennedy's for as long as Kennedy wants it. Key-state Pennsylvania (more than 70 votes) is for whomever Dave Lawrence and Philadelphia Boss William Green want, and they are for the time being glad-handing everybody. But if Democrats eventually called for a compromise candidate, Lyndon had proved two points: 1) he was available, and 2) in the dark and true and tender North the middle-roading Texas swallow blended with the foliage very nicely...
Businessman Governor Luther Hodges made the wage floor a key part of his legislative program two years ago, got it to floor debate after ten years of death-by-committee. This year, backed by a determined band of freshman legislators, Hodges insisted on the minimum wage as necessary paving on the state's road into the future. Said he: "Employers can afford it, employees deserve it, and the state's economic progress demands...
From Rio de Janeiro, where he is living in modest circumstances but lionized by Brazilian intellectuals, Delgado told a TIME correspondent: "It was a small affair, but it frightened the Salazar government to death. I suppose they intended to take over some key points, call on me to abolish the dictatorship. Salazar's Gestapo caught on "to plans because too many people were involved-40 or 50. You Americans don't understand the situation in Portugal. It's a police state under very tight control...
...native Phoenician who stopped his formal training in high school, Long learned an invaluable lesson soon after he began building: "It's easier and cheaper to do it yourself than to subcontract. And volume is the key to continued growth." Long hired his own crew, used every known labor-saving device, estimated his costs to the penny. In his first development, he built 134 houses for $7,400 each, cleared only about $350 on each. Then, in 1953, to take advantage of the 10% down payment introduced by Congress for $7,000-or-under houses during the Korean...