Word: labor
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...July 1965 (before he first visited Viet Nam); he lent qualified support to the Administration's policy at Hartford last spring (17 months after his return from Saigon); and, most recently, he unequivocally denounced the U.S. commitment as a "tragic" mistake. Last week, during a Labor Day interview on Detroit's WKBD-TV, Commentator Lou Gordon wanted to know how Romney squared his current conviction that the U.S. should never have got involved in Asia with the comment he made after a tour of the war zone in November 1965 that "involvement was morally right and necessary...
...letter from Author Graham Greene, 62, to the London Times began movingly, with an appeal to the Russian Union of Writers to turn over his blocked royalties to the wives of Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, the two writers sentenced in February to five and seven years at hard labor for "maligning" Mother Russia in their work. Then, in dazzling transition, Greene added that his letter "must in no way be regarded as an attack" on the Soviet Union, went on to proclaim that he would rather live in Russia than in the U.S., in Cuba than in Bolivia...
...become Governor of Kansas and Republican candidate for President in 1936. Laughing fit to bust britches, Landon tossed out a bagful of prickly pears as he celebrated his 80th birthday in Topeka, including a couple for today's Republicans: "They've got to quit kicking labor in the pants; they've got to quit kicking farmers in the pants." As for the notion that he had somehow turned leftist, Landon snorted: "What was the old Bull Moose keynote? 'Pass prosperity around.' What's the difference between that and the welfare state...
Sticky Issues. What seems like airy nonchalance on the part of the Big Three may actually reflect their satisfaction over Reuther's ticklish position. Nonetheless, an end to the industry's labor strife seems uncomfortably far off, one reason being that the union, as G.M.'s Seaton complains, has yet "to put priorities on its mountain of demands." Besides his wage demands, Reuther has raised such sticky issues as a "guaranteed annual income." And even when a settlement with Ford is finally achieved, the U.A.W. will have to deal with Chrysler and G.M.-where strikes could also...
...public jousting over prices between the Administration and industry in general. Since January, steelmen have been boosting prices in bits and pieces-in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates-with only a whimper from Washington. Not until just before the Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked up "for nearly half the steel tonnage produced in this country," and a flock...