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...camel-cart drivers. When the news of Johnson's TV bid reached Pakistan, the Morning News posted a reward for Bashir, spurring a citywide search by Karachians from every walk of life. Bashir and camel were found by two reporters, collecting a load of firewood in a railway yard. The reporters hustled Bashir off to the editorial office of the morning Dawn, where he was feasted, quizzed, and kept virtual prisoner for 14 hours to assure the paper a scoop. Finally, at 2:30 a.m. he was permitted to return to his anxious wife and four children, little...
...Ruled that a railway worker forced to join a brotherhood by a union shop contract can prevent the union from spending his dues on political causes he rejects. By another 5-to-4 majority, the Court ordered the Georgia Supreme Court to work out some dues-collection system that would satisfy dissenting railroaders who made formal protest against their union's political spending. The decision was ominous news to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, which gathers in dues from Republican and Democratic workers alike-but which spends its budget ($720,000 in 1959) to lobby...
Except for such minor restrictions, said Ulbricht, the Western allies could come and go as they pleased along the air corridors, railway lines, highways and canals that cut through 100 miles or more of East German territory on the way to West Berlin. But of course, he added, the West must in the future negotiate with East Germany for permission to use the routes. "We shall make our proposal," said Ulbricht. "They will make theirs...
...warned that the U.S. should not judge Britain by the ban-the-bombers, "a few whose minds are as fluffy as their beards." He added: "Do not be misled into thinking us soft. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers. The memorial to him in London is a railway station called Waterloo. Shopkeepers we may be, but neither our principles nor our alliances are for sale...
...Desai, though his manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...