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...forced to split up if it has more than 35% of its industry's sales or only 25% if engaged in more than one industry. Since both Ford and G.M. are in several industries, they would each be eligible for only 25% of the auto industry. To nip what he called "union monopolies," Romney would split up big unions such as the U.A.W. In any basic industry, said he, the bargaining power should be lodged with unions "exclusively representing the employees of a single employer...
...raced the mile in ten months, but Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, grabbed an early lead in a race at Melbourne, sprinted through a spectacular 57.9-sec. last quarter to nip the 4-min. mile at 3:59.9, became the fourth Aussie (after John Landy, Jim Bailey and Mervyn Lincoln) to turn the trick...
...Bitten. Such excitement was merely the beginning. In the midst of the nip-and-tuck 1954 congressional campaign, Wilson remarked in Detroit, referring to laid-off auto workers: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five...
...three surviving Civil War veterans (the others: Texan Walter W. Williams, 114, Virginian John Sailing, in), who volunteered in the Alabama guard at 17, was proud of his Confederate background and freely passed on his secret for a long life: "Keep away from them doctors, and take a little nip all along"; in Crestview...
...Mastering the Soviet strategy of ambiguity, contends Kissinger, requires some drastic revisions in U.S. diplomatic and military doctrine. The U.S. must be willing to spend money-and lives, too, if necessary-to nip small Communist aggressions. He does not in the least down-rate the basic importance of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and its capacity for massive retaliation. But the very existence of SAC, he holds, provides an opportunity to meet the less-than-total Communist strategy of ambiguity with a less-than-total U.S. strategy. This means that the U.S. must be psychologically, militarily...