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From his Detroit headquarters, the United Auto Workers' president, Walter Reuther, last week issued another bitter blast at auto layoffs. Cried Reuther: "The plight of thousands of workers on layoffs cannot be swept under a rug woven of platitudes or silence." But U.S. automakers used no platitudes last week. They finally faced the fact that their troubles are not lagging sales but overproduction. Though they had been cutting back steadily for a month, they now took drastic action. The week's score: 111,200 cars, almost 67,000 less than the same weekof...
...City, Omaha and Chicago, and from such Southern centers as Dallas, Miami, Richmond and Memphis. Even the Des Moines Register, a supporter of the farm bill, was philosophical. Republican leaders meeting in Washington (see below) began to perk up after initial despondency. The President, they figured, had pulled the rug from under the Democrats by his principle-over-politics decision, as well as by his offer of administrative relief to farmers and his request for immediate soil-bank payments. By midweek, House Republicans who had backslid on the farm-bill vote (TIME, April 23) began to rally...
...attitude of a man who undoubtedly considered himself Stalin's legitimate heir. But crafty little Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian trader, had been chosen to deliver a speech (obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet. Mikoyan attacked Stalin's Short Course of the History of the Party, for years the ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies...
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: the President said that he was a candidate, many Democrats concluded that the best course was to nominate some expendable and ambitious soul to have the rug pulled out from under him. Mr. Stevenson, other wise admirably fitted for the role, isn't going to be available if he meets any further reverses. Senator Kefauver is as light as a cork. His only qualification is his ambition, which commends him to few besides himself. Governor Harriman is colorless. It begins to look as if the Democrats may have difficulty finding someone to stand on that carpet...
...sons and daughters of alcoholics and criminals ; others have been juvenile delinquents; all arrive lost and afraid. For these, Graham offers no elaborate psychiatric routine. Its whole approach is so straightforward and simple as to make a social worker despair. "The average kid who's had the rug pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems to me, is to push here, guide there, play it by ear as any conscientious and unafraid father would...