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...refusal to cite the three would represent the first time that Congress has not acted in accord with HUAC proposals to cite for contempt, Howe said. A possibility, which Howe called remote, is that Congress might refer the Chicago affair to the House Judiciary Committee...
...answering the first two of five reasons advanced by the Council's majority for dismissing him. He rejected the first of these, his age, declaring that he had not been late or absent to his job once -- except when out of the City -- during nearly 14 years. "And I refer to a seven-day week," he added...
Share the Burden. Freedom National prospers because it is Harlem's first Negro-chartered, Negro-run commercial bank. On 125th Street, people refer to it as "my bank," a significant phrase in a neighborhood where most fixed property has always been controlled by whites. Freedom National's chairman is Jackie Robinson, a Negro folk hero who holds his position mostly for his name's sake. Operative boss is President William R. Hudgins, 56, who came to the new bank from a small savings and loan association. Hudgins was born in Virginia but has lived and worked...
Gringo Grumbles. Mexico's motives are not altogether selfless. It would like to boost exports and build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply...
...subtle. The inappropriateness of a strike against the public interest had forced the development of a whole arsenal of limited economic weapons which made possible the resolution of negotiations between adversaries. In effect what the New York Times chooses to call political deals and what Mr. Lindsay's spokesmen refer to as "dealing with the power brokers" was a limited form of collective bargaining, which allowed for the resolution of economic conflict without reliance on a strike--a confrontation based on limited economic weapons...