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After Jack W. Hall, owlish Hawaii regional director for Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was convicted in 1953 of violating the Smith Act, 22,000 I.L.W.U. members on the piers and plantations suddenly began to relax quietly into the soft, balmy mood of the Islands. Though they had marched out on 116 postwar strikes or work stoppages before Hall was found guilty, they have seldom misbehaved since. The new look comes partly from a flat look in the union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent...
...station attendant with whom he had an argument. In Washington, Texan Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, felt obliged to announce that he did not "anticipate" that irreconcilable views on racial segregation would split the Democratic Party in 1956. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill another U.S. lawmaker, an owlish, bespectacled man with a dead cigar in his mouth, stared unblinkingly at a visitor and said: "I can tell you that integration will never come to Mississippi. I say there is no basis for compromise...
That querulous congregation of contention. the French Assembly, gathered last week in a mood as black as the sooty exterior of its Seine-side meeting place. For the third time in three weeks, owlish little Premier Edgar Faure was bobbing and weaving frantically to save his political life...
Some, the enemies of change in North Africa, were delighted. "The condition of the government is deteriorating satisfactorily," crowed one Deputy. All week long, owlish Edgar Faure maneuvered desperately to keep his government in power. He appealed to Frenchmen's patriotic pride, charging that the North African troubles were part of an "international offensive" against France, defending France's walkout from the U.N. Assembly rather than accept debate on Algeria. "Although France is weakened at present, she remains strong enough to abandon nothing of her national dignity." he cried...
...Assembly was dominated less by the personality of owlish Edgar Faure than by fear of Mendes. Deputies feared that if they refused Faure, they might get Mendes back. Faure, with his genius for avoiding head-on collisions, was careful never to alarm the Deputies' touchy pride by threats, demands, or talking over their heads to the public. He did not once demand a vote of confidence.- And every time he achieved quietly what Mendes had tried to do dramatically, Faure's durability increased, and the threat of Mendes' return diminished...