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...drop the amendment. Three days before Bergland passed along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto the farm bill." Mount told TIME Correspondent Greg Wierzynski last week that the comment-which he does not remember making-was nothing more than an idle boast. Said he: "I apparently violated...
...they are prepared to do an about-turn either to the right or left when so ordered, no one will take even their most solemn declarations literally." Even if the Berlinguers are sincere, it is far from certain that once they are in office their views would continue to prevail over those of their colleagues, many of whom are Stalinists...
...some fictive principle of objectivity. But the corporate spirit runs counter to broad freedom of thought and individual creativity; in its organization and marketing, its urge is to standardize, to cheapen, to impersonalize. And to the extent the principles of big business enter the press, this commercial spirit will prevail, as it has with all mass products...
...Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, who contends that a bigger tax cut would deepen the budget deficit, kick up inflation and irrecoverably lead to recession. He opposes even the $25 billion cut and advocates starting at a lower figure, say $15 billion. But Ullman is not likely to prevail over O'Neill. Earnest, hard-working Ullman lacks the clout wielded by his predecessor, Wilbur Mills, in part because of recent reforms of House rules, which weakened all committee chairmen while strengthening the Speaker...
...knows which point of view will prevail among the 650 delegates who go to San Diego. Some conservatives are already talking about an emergency meeting this summer and the possibility of withholding money from the denomination or even of schism, if the liberal policy passes. Liberals believe the church can no longer ignore the fact of homosexuality and the anguish of those homosexuals who are Christian believers. For conservatives, including the growing Evangelical forces and many adherents of the waning neo-orthodox theology, the policy on homosexuality is crucial in ways that go far beyond the question of whether homosexuals...