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Hugh Gaitskill's Laborites, although they have retained the support of over forty per cent of the electorate, must do more than lick their wounds if they are to regain power at all. The composition of the British electorate, representing the highest industrial working class in the world, should be uniquely favorable to a left-wing party. Yet in no election has the Labor Party won even fifty per cent of the vote. One of every three manual workers votes Conservative, including over three million trade unionists whos unions are committed to the Labor Party...
...Something." Still he had to lick the biggest problem: winning approval from G.M.'s top management. In July of 1956, Ed Cole got a much freer rein to press the project: Chevy Boss Tom Keating moved up to head all G.M. passenger-car divisions, and Ed Cole replaced him as the Chevrolet general manager, became a G.M. vice president...
Speaker Sam Rayburn, vindicated in his promise to "lick 'em" on the pork barrel, beamed broadly. Same day the Senate gleefully followed the House with a 72-23 vote to override, eight extra, and the bill became...
...home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
...what really made exotic fuel a marginal program was the rapid developments in aviation and rocketry since the program began, plus some hard-to-lick bugs in using the fuel. Jet engines have improved so rapidly, even using cheap kerosene as fuel, that they are rapidly, approaching the efficiency expected with exotic fuels. Furthermore, U.S. missiles that can be fired at a distant target from speeding planes have been developed so fast that an increase in the range of the B70 is not as important as it once...