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...unions into a corner that will force still more labor turmoil. Strikes next month would be a particular embarrassment because the Democratic National Convention takes place in Manhattan during the week of July 12. There are also purely local political considerations. Though he has been regarded as a lame duck, Beame has regained his confidence and is now considering running for a second term next year. To do so he will need labor support...
...hear the President make that statement again, at least not while Reagan is still breathing down our necks." Even Kissinger fans have long assumed that he would not necessarily be kept on for a second term, and while such talk does turn him into something of a lame duck in negotiations, his departure in an orderly transition to a new Administration would be quite different from dumping...
OCHS WENT THROUGH some feeble attempts to find his audience again. He adopted the notion that the way to America was through the jukebox and this reasoning led him onstage at Carnegie Hall in a gold lame suit. It was all carried off with an extreme self-consciousness--on the back of the album that followed the concert, he wrote '50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong...
...lackadaisical campaigning style in Illinois. Reported TIME Midwest Bureau Chief Ben Gate: "He wasted hours of valuable time going from one obscure town to another by motorcade. He sometimes slipped into motels and hotels through back doors, then begged off working the crowds waiting outside with a lame excuse: Tm sorry, but I'm running behind schedule.' He did not go after the suburban straphangers until it was too late. By contrast, Ford worked the fences and the police barricades as if he were L.B.J. in his prime. He deftly handled questions about everything from the Nixon pardon...
Hiss's rebuttal was immediate-and lame. He accused Weinstein of bias and called his conclusions "childish." But he did not refute most of those conclusions, including Weinstein's contentions-based on a letter that one defense lawyer had written to another in 1948-that Hiss knew that the Woodstock typewriter had been given away to the maid's son. Instead, Hiss merely reiterated an oft-leveled accusation that the typewriter produced at his perjury trial had a serial number (Woodstock N230099) that indicated it was manufactured one year later than the one he had once owned...