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...working. Last week he abandoned Washington to campaign in his bull-like voice, beat a fist into a palm, and roar: "There's a hundred ships loaded with Russian equipment on the high seas heading for Cuba. This nation had better act." At a Sigma Delta Chi luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the candidates clashed headon. Bayh claimed that Capehart had drawn $250,000 in federal benefits on his own farming operation while "trying to reduce the income of farmers," and that he had "deliberately violated" the rules of a Senate briefing on Cuba by disclosing that Kennedy...
...David has in the past few years built a solid reputation for economic intelligence and insight. Now, wherever he goes, businessmen collect to hear what he has to say. (A group of Ohio executives recently drove 70 miles so that they would not miss his address at a Columbus luncheon.) His exchange of letters with President Kennedy on the balance-of-payments problem, in LIFE two months ago, won him attention from the general public as an articulate, sophisticated spokesman of the business community...
...moved to the outskirts, and our membership is largely professional people who work in the city. And they go home to the suburbs at night. The Union used to be a club in the pure sense of the word. Now it's a businessmen's luncheon restaurant." A member of Chicago's swank Chicago Club feels that even more crucial to the club is the out-of-town migration of business and industry: "Who's going to come into the city during lunch hour...
...incalculable influence on the traditional clubs is the sprouting of high-initiation luncheon clubs. Manhattan has several on top of skyscrapers: the Wall Street Club and the Harbor View downtown, the Cloud Club in the Chrysler Building, the Pinnacle in the Socony Mobil Building, the Hemisphere in the TIME & LIFE Building. These have an advantage over the regular clubs, by operating on a one-meal-a-day, five-day-week basis. The 700-member Pinnacle, for instance, spent $626,000 in fiscal 1961-62 and took in a comfortable...
...many Harvard-men around him (Kennedy chuckled), deplored the aggressiveness of the Government's trustbusters, criticized the Administration's penchant for becoming involved in so many collective-bargaining disputes and its habit of making too many public pronouncements about the economy. Kennedy was pleased with the luncheon dialogue, and both he and the businessmen agreed that there ought to be similar get-togethers in the future...