Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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N.A.M. surely deserved some blame, but the Democrats would most regret the failure. Labor might be relieved; "You can say we're not sorry it failed," commented one labor official. But the U.S. as a whole had been deeply stirred by McClellan's revelations of corruption in Big Labor, might at election time wonder why a Democratic-controlled Congress had not done something about it. The man to ask was Democrat Sam Rayburn, 45-year House veteran, who has wielded his gavel too long and ruled the House too well to botch a legislative job accidentally...
...domestic airmail. Richer by $450 million revenue, Postmaster General Summerfield rosily called it "the beginning of the greatest period of postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought I'd just write one more letter to the editor before the Republican-economy 4? postage goes into effect...
Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion broke his silence last week to warn that Israel would listen to what a U.N. summit conference might say about Middle East problems but would not be bound by U.N. summit decisions adopted without its participation. News of another Ben-Gurion diplomatic deed came out of Jerusalem last week. On the day Israel's Cabinet voted to give Britain permission to overfly Israel to bring troops and supplies to hard-pressed King Hussein, Ben-Gurion received the Soviet ambassador, told him that if Russia was really interested in peace, it might usefully...
...pound tables and raise hell to get things done," says Link. "When the directors say tomorrow, I tell them I'm camping right here until you get going." When he was hired, he told Petrobrás brass: "I'm a capitalist and a strict believer in private enterprise. But leave me alone and I'll do the job." Link still feels that private foreign oil companies are needed in Brazil. "The more people you have looking for oil the better," he says...
...that once promising baby, television, moves straight from infancy into senility," adds TV Writer Dale Wasserman, the writers themselves must bear the brunt of the blame. "Sometimes I dream of a truly controversial play-oh, say, one in defense of intolerance. A fine case could be, made. Think of the fun of galvanizing the sleepy, postprandial audience, goading it into sitting up and saying: 'What? What was that?' But this demands extraordinary effort. Thinking takes work . . . Thus the quick-and-lucrative looks better every...