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...face to face in the upstairs Oval Room-Kennedy in his rocker, Gromyko in an easy chair-the President remarked, "I am sorry Mrs. Kennedy isn't here; she is up in Rhode Island with the babies." Courteously, Gromyko replied, "Give her my best." With that, the business began...
...humid midsummer night in Washington. The city slept as best it could. On Capitol Hill, the great dome glowed above an empty plaza. But in its nearly empty chamber, the U.S. Senate was still in session-of a sort. Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, acting as presiding officer, nodded in the chair; Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey and Republican Whip Tom Kuchel slumped at their desks, staring trancelike at nothing. And from his back-row desk, Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire talked and talked and talked, pausing only to sip butterscotch-flavored Metrecal...
Died. Herbert Claiborne Pell, 77, pince-nezed bibliophile descendant of Louisiana's first state Governor and father of Rhode Island's Junior Senator Claiborne Pell, a onetime Congressman himself (1919-21) and New York State Democratic Committee chairman (1921-26), who was tapped by his Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more...
...Reuther led the planning for the auto wage negotiations, the man who did the union's talking in last week's parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26?hourly wage boost, guaranteed annual salaries for skilled workers...
Last Lurch. Last year the New Haven rolled $14.5 million into the red. In one final lurch toward solvency, Alpert persuaded the Governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to push through tax reductions totaling $6,000,000 on New Haven property. He hoped to save another $6,000,000 by economies in labor and management and by repeal of the 10% federal excise tax. But the state tax reductions did not go into effect until a fortnight ago, the federal tax was not repealed, and the labor-management savings never came about...