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...advantage of that fact. It argues that productivity in the auto industry is increasing by 4.9% annually and that its workers deserve nothing less than a 4.9% wage hike. The industry's offer amounts to about 3.5%, higher than the 3.2% guideline laid down by the Administration to stave off inflationary wage raises. Walter Reuther does not care much for guidelines, snapped that "no economics professor is going to write our contract." The final settlement will be somewhere between 3.5% and 4.9%, and thus assuredly well above the Government standard...
...novel's end, Fenstemaker has managed to elect an upstanding young Senator, destroy a McCarthyite type, arrest a crooked lobbyist who has been bribing legislators, stave off a segregationist march on the capitol, and give many a liberal a lesson in Coonass politics. That ought to make even Lyndon Johnson proud...
...seize power in many parts of France. They made up a great part of the Resistance, and no one could fault them for their courage during the Occupation. De Gaulle realized that only by appearing as an utterly uncompromising, incorruptible leader could he win the confidence of Frenchmen and stave off a Communist takeover...
Such a compromise course might possibly stave off disaster while minimizing, for the Johnson Administration, the risk of a major war in an election year. But it all had a familiar ring, since McNamara had expressed many of the same hopes about the short-lived junta that preceded Khanh...
...will be somewhat more conservative than President Kennedy. They know that his family has extensive private holdings in ranching and broadcasting, that he is on friendly terms with Texas oilmen and other big businessmen, and that he has boosted Texas by using his influence to seek business and to stave off attacks on the 27½% oil-depletion allowance. And it does him no harm in businessmen's eyes that as a U.S. Senator he voted "right" on labor issues less than half of the time by the estimate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "I expect," said Socony Mobil...