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Early last week Martinis finally got around to paying another penalty: $65 in fines for his five defective-muffler tickets, issued in mid-April and mid-May. And that was not the end of the road. At week's end, the grand jury indicted Martinis on five counts of vehicular homicide-one for each person who died on the Henry Hudson Parkway that Sunday evening in May...
Such criticisms plainly dictated a shift in Administration strategy. In mid-May the President announced that he would soon send a package of civil rights measures to Congress. Since then the debut has been twice postponed while Justice Department lawyers worked over the details. Scheduled to be dispatched to Capitol Hill this week, the President's package consists of four proposals that would: 1) extend the life of the Civil Rights Commission for four years, 2) fortify voting rights, 3) give the Attorney General broadened authority to intervene in school-segregation cases, 4) ban discrimination in hotels, motels...
Wilson's main worry is that labor may ruin Labor's chances. Fearful that the proposed curtailment of service would put 70,000 of 475,000 workers out of work, the National Union of Railwaymen has called a three-day protest walkout for mid-May. Wilson, who is grimly aware of the damage dealt Labor by a crippling London transport strike before the 1959 election, attempted repeatedly last week to make the railwaymen call off their unpopular walkout, but made little headway. Prayed a Tory Cabinet minister: "Just give us that strike, and watch the votes pour into...
...fares. Boyd was not budging. At week's end, after three days of negotiations, Boyd's opponents backed down temporarily, offered to extend the truce to May 15. But nothing was solved yet. A British official told a reporter: "We will tell TWA and Pan Am in mid-May that they must charge increased fares or they will not be allowed access to airports in this country." Boyd planned to use the extra time to make the rounds of European capitals pleading the U.S. case for lower fares...
...Cleopatra, Zanuck said, the key scenes are fine but the continuity and, in some places, the photography are disappointing. A "more or less drastic" editing is needed before it can be released in mid-May. "I can't afford the luxury of more talk," Zanuck says. "Interest on the $35 million the picture has consumed amounts to $7,000 a day. Completing work on it will cost a couple million more." Then, assuring all who would listen that Mankiewicz is still welcome "for debates and conversations about what I do to the film," Zanuck retreated to the consolations...