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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...
...Bags & Insults. Disregarding recommendations of his own citizens' committee (which suggested a bond issue and such new service charges as a trash-collection and auto users' fee), the mayor and his nine-man city council adopted an income tax ordinance without a public vote. Shouts of outrage echoed in the Rockies, as the Denver citizenry dramatized memories of the Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into the suburbs...
...brought to the NATO conference table nine "position papers." Their contents...
...nine months of looking for a successor to retiring School Superintendent William Jansen, 70, the New York City Board of Education seemed to favor one man. Dr. John J. Theobald, 53, has no degree in education and never taught in a public school, but as the energetic president of municipal Queens College and more recently as New York's deputy mayor, he has come to know as much about his city and its huge (1,000,000 pupils) school system as any man. Last week, after looking over 24 candidates from all over the U.S., the board announced that...
...Bartok. Madison Avenue admen get together to play igao's jazz, Menninger Foundation psychiatrists play Bach. In Chicago a group of Northwestern professors formed a combo called "The Academic Cats," and San Francisco Christmas shoppers are currently being assaulted by the excruciating street-corner sounds made by nine businessmen in "vaguely Franco-Prussian uniforms" who bill themselves as the "Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band" ("We take out our animosities this way; it's cheaper and more fun than psychiatry...