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...British paradox that Britons wanted last week was Beveridge without bureaucrats. The Government tried to give them what they wanted-a cradle-to-grave social security plan (cost $2,600,000,000) covering every man, woman & child in Britain...
...right to strike, their strongest bargaining weapon, as soon as possible. And the rank-&-filers at the convention were well organized around the Briggs Detroit Local No. 212, which has had 33 wildcat strikes since the first of the year. The chief argument of the rank-&-filers was a paradox: if the union were allowed to strike, it would not strike so often...
Wittiest, most serious paradox came from iron-grey, satirical New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin: "We are now in a period of profound peace, which is the last we are likely to have for some time to come. . . . When the war is over, the period which we shall enter will be one of the greatest difficulty and danger...
Pint-Sized Paradox. To the few who knew Al Klein well, his career and his person were a paradox. Born in Germany 61 years ago, he was brought to the U.S. as a child, trained to follow his father in interior decorating. Full-grown, Al was 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weighed...
...rarest occasions, to gag a single one of its members. This has been a characteristic of gentlemen's debating societies ever since the Roman Senate, bored with the obstructionist tactics of Cato the Younger, nonetheless allowed him to filibuster on. Last week Tom Connally explained this ancient paradox in down-to-earth terms: "Those who today may advocate the imposition of cloture . . . may tomorrow be the victims of it. ... It has been suggested that Dr. Guillotine, who invented the guillotine, was himself guillotined by the guillotine...