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...house or TV set and many a businessman who embarks on plant expansion or modernization is discovering that it is harder to get the money he needs to do it-and the money costs him more. As the economy boomed, the supply of money over the past few months has got steadily tighter. For how and why this happened, and what it means to the economy, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Tighter Money...
...Dangerous. It was fitting that Jimmy Hoffa should be worried about the labor bill: he is the No. 1 reason for legislation aimed at reforming labor. The public demand for Congress to vote tough curbs on labor unions is a direct result of the revelations piled up over the past three years by the Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan. The McClellan committee uncovered plenty of corruption in other unions, notably the Bakery and Confectionery Workers and the Operating Engineers. But among U.S. labor unions...
...once suggested, news makes names, then the biggest names in U.S. presidential politics last week and in weeks past were Republican. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful Richard Nixon made news whatever he did and wherever he went, addressing the Football Writers Association and attending the Baltimore Colts-College All-Star football game in Chicago, speaking on radio and television about his trip to Russia and Poland, even getting a surprise pat on the back from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who praised the work of Nixon's anti-inflation committee. Republican Hopeful
...Tories' five-year deadline is next May, but the betting is that Harold Macmillan will call an election in October or November. Reason: he is riding high. Last week a Gallup poll showed the Tories with a 590 edge over Labor, a gain of 2% in the past month...
Humane Socialism. Gibney believes that Gomulka, as the country's boss, has a fair chance to keep up his hair-raising tightrope act under the international big top. But he has no illusions about him. In the past, Gomulka "connived, cheated, threatened and bludgeoned" as much as any other Communist leader. When he returned to power in 1956, after years of imprisonment at the hands of the Stalinists, a more humane side emerged. He undertook to introduce democracy in the Communist Party and to build "humane socialism" (which Gibney describes as a "wedding of modern Communist practice with...