Word: labor
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Like Winston & F.D.R. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson followed Ayub by a few hours. On his fifth visit to Washington since Johnson took office, Wilson felt sufficiently at home to josh the President on a sensitive subject. When Johnson commented lightly on the Labor Party's precarious two-seat margin in Parliament, the Prime Minister shot back with a remark about Johnson's "86 votes"-a nearly accurate reference to the scandal-tinged 1948 Texas senatorial primary in which Lyndon squeaked through by 87 votes. The President protested: "You haven't been here six hours...
...photographed in November carrying a placard that read: "End Johnson's fascist aggression in Viet Nam." Last week a court-martial at Fort Bliss, Texas, found him guilty of showing contempt of authority and conduct unbecoming an officer. Howe was sentenced to two years at hard labor and dismissal from the service...
...name that stands out is Jean Marchand, 47, who will head Pearson's proposed Ministry of Manpower, dealing with everything from citizenship and immigration to employment. An able Quebec labor leader and attractive vote getter, he is the first French Canadian in years to hold a Cabinet post with real economic power and is obviously a man in whom Pearson sees possibilities...
Balconies for Viewing. Most of all, Westminster Abbey has taught more than 30 generations what England is. Now, at a cost of $1,120,000 and ten years' labor, the Perpendicular Gothic pillars and spires stand renewed, the vaults and tombs are freshly polychromed (see color pages). The Abbey is actually under the jurisdiction of the Crown, that is, the English people, rather than under the sole rule of the church. When Elizabeth II comes next week to her "Royal Peculiar," she will come for the plain song and preaching more as just another communicant than as head...
Managing the nation's record prosperity may prove more troublesome for Washington than achieving it. The U.S. economy is thriving in a careful balance, with industry humming at close to capacity, shortages of skilled labor hampering (though not yet hobbling) key producers, price increases straining the bounds of stability. Last week, as fresh evidence showed that industry's plans to expand capacity have hardly been dented by the rising price of money, the signs also increased that the Administration may soon feel forced to use stronger medicine to fight the threat of inflation...