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Labor. One of the most significant NATIONAL AFFAIRS stories of recent years has been the revelation of corruption in the Teamsters Union. More than two years ago, TIME looked into the Teamsters' aromatic stable in a cover story on Dave Beck, then boss of the union. On Labor Day, 1957, TIME summed up the congressional hearings on labor up to that point, and concluded: "There is a strong likelihood of more restrictive labor laws." After three years of congressional investigation of the Teamsters, TIME decided that it was time to restudy and recap the record, which Teamster Boss Jimmy...
Inspired by the success of President Eisenhower's recent television appeal for a strong law to fight labor racketeering, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week marched into Gettysburg, returned with a promise that Ike would plow into the multi-billion-dollar farm-subsidy scandal. Before Congress reconvenes next January, Benson said, the President will go on television with a direct appeal for public support of Benson's proposals to end the wheat surplus for which taxpayers pay dearly...
Before his arrival in Washington, Rocky had to rid himself of an embarrassment. In hotel-suite conversations at the recent Governors' Conference in Puerto Rico, he had let it be known that he would base his decision about 1960 on this November's political polls: whether they showed that he, rather than Vice President Richard Nixon, would be the stronger G.O.P. candidate. But the polls had Nixon far ahead and increasing his lead (TIME, Aug. 24). Rockefeller called an Albany news conference, said of his statement about relying on the polls:*"I should like to state that...
Waiting for October. The tough Laotian army paratroops around Samneua are in good spirits, despite low pay and meager supplies; in recent weeks they have brought in 50 prisoners and killed 200 rebels in difficult jungle warfare. In general, however, Laos' 25,000-man army is poorly trained and must fight piecemeal over large parts of the country. New Communist attacks in four other Laotian provinces last week were obviously designed to spread the defenses even thinner. Some Laotian leaders concede that
...hardest fall was taken by the highest flyers, the space-age electronics stocks, which have soared giddily in recent months. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. fell 23¾ points on the American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange President Edward T. McCormick went onto the floor to discuss the break at Fairchild's trading post. Other electronics stocks followed; Texas Instruments fell 3⅞, IBM 2½. Zenith 4⅛, Litton...