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Billed as a cooperative witness. Gibbons showed up in Washington with two valises and a briefcase stuffed with union records. But the committee was not so interested in his luggage as it was in the dark record of his labor career, thoroughly documented by committee research and previous witnesses. Items: ^ Far from abhorring violence, as Gibbons piously testified, he is pretty good as an engineer of violence-as the evidence clearly showed. During a St. Louis cab strike in 1953, he used a crew of enforcers that included a procurer, a stickup man, a pimp who put his own wife...
...Gross national product in 1957 was $8.2 billion, up 10% from the previous year. Cost of living grew along with it, but wages more than kept up (see chart...
...appraisals. One man, recalls Baggs, admitted that he was up for election because "his wife told him to run for something so he'd get publicity, meet a few people and maybe improve his law business." Another confessed to soft-pedaling a major issue he used in a previous campaign. "I still feel the same way about that," he said, "but I got clobbered on that issue the last time...
Born. To Singing Actress Anne Jeffreys, 35, and Actor Robert Sterling, 41, the ghost husband and wife in TV's Topper series: their second child, second son (he has a daughter by a previous marriage to Actress Ann Sothern); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Robert Dana. Weight...
Playing Fields of Camelot. In this work Author White has revised and rewritten the three previous books in his Arthurian cycle and combined them with an entirely new concluding section. The saga opens with sylvan innocence in an England that is roughshod yet full of rural graces. The only thing that troubles the towhead Wart (Arthur-to-be) is the commonly accepted notion that he is a bastardly blot on the escutcheon of a country squire named Sir Ector. whose proper son Kay is an unamiable toad. Sir Ector wants both lads to acquire a good "eddication." An old "tilting...