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Ford has widespread support among House Republicans, but his success against Halleck is by no means assured. Charlie has been around for a long while, has in his possession a lot of political lOUs, and will certainly not hesitate to call them in. Last week, before Ford announced his candidacy, the House Republican Conference met, fully expecting Halleck to come out swinging against any imminent threat to his leadership. But Charlie sweet-talked the dissidents about party harmony, to the point that one of them, Massachusetts' Silvio Conte, told reporters, "It's as peaceful in there as Miss...
While visiting Puerto Rico, a New Yorker named Jack Golden lost $12,000 shooting craps in a San Juan hotel casino. Golden signed lOUs for $9,000 and wrote a check for $3,000. Then, when he got home, he ordered his bank to stop payment. Golden assumed that it was a lovely legal welsh; gambling debts are not collectible in New York...
...outbreak of World War I, Hoover declared, "Let fortune go to hell," abandoned business interests that were about to skyrocket in value, plunged into a selfless life of public service. Working in London, he helped some 120,000 Americans who were stranded in Europe without convertible currency, accepted their lOUs, and raised enough cash for the Americans to return home...
...Kennedy and the arts: "John F. Kennedy as Lous XV seemed up to the moment of his assassination the true symbol of our cultural plight; not only our first sexually viable president in a century, after a depressing series of uncle, grandfather and grandmother figures, but the very embodiment of middlebrow culture climbing...
...grumbles are even louder ashore. With gold-rush enthusiasm, businessmen overborrowed-took short-term loans at interest as high as 28%-to overbuild. "They are operating in a sea of lOUs," says Victor Riveros, editor of Peru's fishing-industry journal Pesca. The industry now has a capacity of 2,000,000 tons of fish meal a year, or nearly double what it expects to sell. As a result, most of the country's 156 plants are operating at half speed; 30 are closed altogether. Last week workers marched in and seized one plant on account of three...