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...Dark View. Many of Muncie's unemployed are middleaged, like John Campbell, or unskilled, like Arnold Mace, or both. But unemployment strikes even men who are young and trained and eager. James Smith, 28, married and the father of three young children, is a skilled patternmaker, and he has practiced all the virtues that are supposed to assure prosperity. He is thrifty, hardworking, enterprising. After he was laid off in mid-1960, he tried to make a living as a freelance patternmaker, leased a small machine shop, for which he agreed to pay 40% of his profits...
Possibly Harvard will be able to get along well without Mac, but the remark manages to show something of the way in which Bundy in the last few years seems to have grown larger than his job, and has wielded the Dean's powerful mace with an influence unusually strong...
...lobby began to file into the House to take their seats. Precisely on the hour, a voice raised the traditional cry "Mistah Speakah," and the legislators froze as a bemedaled attendant solemnly descended the nine red-carpeted steps into the well of the House and laid a golden mace on the table separating the government front benches from those of the opposition. After a prayer calling down God's protection on the nation and Queen Elizabeth II, the Speaker, in his English-accented English, called "Odah, odah," and the debate began. Scarcely had it got into full swing when...
...jovial group of eastern M.P.s drove up in a red Dodge convertible with a big stuffed toy tiger propped up on the back seat. Finally the Speaker, in his legislative robes and wig, strode majestically into the chamber, followed by the sergeant at arms bearing the golden mace of authority. "Extraordinary," said Macmillan with pleasure. "Nigeria has come to the threshold of independence without strife or bitterness between our two peoples...
...Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin Co.. manufacturers of military aircraft and missiles (Vanguard, Titan, Mace). In the past three years no fewer than 25 top-ranking Navy and Air Force officers vacationed on Eleuthera at Martin's expense...