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...million this year), when they took power in April. But since then lack of confidence in the political future has made the problem worse. "Business hates a system where the rules of the game are not known," complains a leading Lisbon oil executive. "The government holds marathon sessions and argues and argues, but it never makes a decision." Indeed, basic laws governing labor relations or investment have been under inconclusive discussion for months, leaving businessmen unable to plan future budgets. Until the revolution, strikes were illegal. Now the government has decreed that workers may strike, but only after 30 days...
...Marathon. There is respect too from a onetime J.F.K. aide for the way St. Clair carried his enormous work load. Says Former Massachusetts Bar Association President Richard K. Donahue: "Christ, he was pursuing about nine different actions at one time. If you look at his court calendar, it's mystifying that he was able to make as many effective appearances as he did. It was a marathon performance under the most intense pressure and in the full X-ray glare of the media." For all this, St. Clair had resigned from his law firm and served...
...wiry frame tensed for combat, his glance imperiously stern, his mustache visibly bristling, his arms formidably laden with books, the lean, dapper man strode briskly to his Senate seat. "Mr. President," his utterly confident baritone voice rang out, and then for two hours, three, four, and once for a marathon 22 hours and 26 minutes, Wayne Morse lectured, harangued, infuriated and often educated his fellow Senators. Sometimes they fled the lesson, and Morse addressed an empty floor and gallery. But it scarcely fazed him. For he was sure that he was speaking for the ages and not just...
James J. Norton, international representative for the GAIU, said last night that both sides have set aside Monday and Tuesday for a possible marathon bargaining session that could bring a final settlement of the strike...
...Senator from New York by Robert Kennedy in 1964; and Mary Pitcairn Davis, 53, widow of Wendell Davis, Manhattan attorney and Harvard Law School classmate of Keating's; he for the second time, she for the third; in Princeton, N.J. Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East marathon forced repeated postponements of the wedding by keeping the groom glued to his diplomatic post...