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Even more disturbing to the White House, since it flaunted a forbidden word, was a speech by a faithful, discreet and nonpartisan public servant. Commissioner of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague. In Atlantic City to address the Interstate Conference on Labor Statistics, Clague became the first member of the Administration to admit that a recession might very well be in sight. If the postwar economic cycle repeats itself, said Clague, a recession is likely to occur in 1963. Noting that many economists have been expecting a recession, he said: "The only question has been exactly when it is coming...
...tell us just what this is all about?" If Gross doesn't like the explanation-as in the case of a bill for a historic memorial in Texas in which the $115,000 appropriation did not even cover the cost of the land-Gross declares loudly: No! With nonpartisan passion, Gross crusades against spending. When Kennedy was inaugurated, Gross protested that an Army chauffeur was driving Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford around Washington...
...California primaries last week, Former Vice President Richard Nixon's victory drew all the national attention, but Californians showed almost as much interest in a technically nonpartisan primary contest for a post with no patronage, little power, and until now, practically no public notice: state superintendent of public instruction...
...Diego County School Superintendent Cecil Hardesty, 55, an able but colorless middle-of-the-roader who based his campaign on experience and a nonpartisan approach to the state's education problems, received the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner...
...ancient heritage." Occasionally, the attempt to link music and words-as in a sudden intrusion of primitive drumbeats for the phrase "To those peoples in the huts and villages"-upsets the continuity. But for the most part, it is tightly knit and moving. Says Composer Danburg: "It is strictly nonpartisan...