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...Jimmy Hoffa last week set out full blast to run down the mild-reforming Kennedy labor bill, which rolled through the Senate (TIME, May 4) and is due up soon in the House. While Hoffa's aides in Washington were buttonholing Congressmen in an effort to kill or soften the bill-aimed principally at the Teamsters' own flagrant abuses of power-Boss Hoffa popped into Nashville to blow the horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. There, before a surprisingly thin crowd of Teamster members, Hoffa called Meany a "traitor...
...David against Goliath McCarthy, last week found his name linked with what one snickering newspaper called "doves of sin." It happened through CBS radio's lively tabloid report on "The Business of Sex" (TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when the ruckus started...
...Favorites. To soften the blow a bit, the government offered a special rate of 57 pesetas to the dollar compared to the official rate of 42. But Franco seemed to be playing no favorites. Among those caught were such men as the powerful Conde de Arteche, chairman of the Banco de Bilbao, and Juan March, one of the world's richest men. Also involved were Franco-sponsored organizations, such as the giant Institute Nacional de Industria, which controls everything from airlines to steel mills...
...Brandt made himself a spokesman for Berlin. Bouncing back from momentary dismay at Secretary Dulles' remark that the Allies might accept East German control officials as "agents" of the Russians, he cried: "We do not release our Allies from responsibility to defend Berlin with force." If the Allies soften their position, said Brandt, "the West will end up like an artichoke, stripped of its influence, leaf by leaf." Asked if West Berlin wanted to become a free state, he snapped: "Another Danzig? Never...
...Doubleday; $3-75), ex-Critic Zinsser takes up in general terms the question that has had New York newsmen buzzing for weeks: Was Bill Zinsser kicked upstairs because of pressure from advertisers? "It is generally assumed in New York motion picture circles." Zinsser writes, "that a movie studio can soften an adverse review-in advance-by bringing pressure on a newspaper. Unhappily, there is some truth in this belief." He insists that no such pressure dislodged him, says that he asked to be relieved. But he notes that his removal coincided with a new Herald Tribune policy of leniency towards...