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...demand as a speaker; he receives about a thousand letters a week, runs up a $2,000-a-month telephone bill keeping up his long distance contacts. Moreover, Nixon is preparing to campaign in 1962 for Republican candidates across the country, partly because he can help them win and strengthen the party, partly because he hopes to have the favor returned at the" 1964 G.O.P. convention. Few Nixon strategists seriously consider the idea of bypassing '64 for '68; win or lose, the next Republican presidential nominee would become titular head of the party, and Nixon would be frozen...
...trade, which makes up 60% of its exports. The cheeriest support Britain got anywhere in the Commonwealth came from Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, who forthrightly said, "I think it would be a good thing if Britain joined the Common Market.'' His reason: it would strengthen Europe and the West against Communism...
...that the U.S. hardly needs a dozen major lines, that some sensible mergers would eliminate costly separate facilities and ground crews. The CAB's new Chairman Alan S. Boyd, 39, is merger-minded, and he is already hunting a strong mate for Northeast Airlines. His goal is to strengthen the airlines so that they will be able to make the next technological leap forward-to supersonic jets by the early 1970's-without massive federal subsidy. To accomplish that, Chairman Boyd believes that the CAB must abandon its policy of rewarding the weak to keep them alive. "That...
Gout in his arm has bothered him intermittently, and he punches a bag occasionally and watches his diet (by stinting on meat proteins and fried foods) to strengthen his throwing-even while working as an off-season customers' man on Wall Street. He has never won 20 games in a season, partly because the Yankees pulled him out of the regular pitching rotation to use him as a "stopper" in the big games. In 1960 he had his worst year, 12-9, although he redeemed himself with two shutouts against Pittsburgh in the World Series...
...Flexibility. Auto companies dread Government intervention more than Reuther does. But Reuther, too, is under pressure. He badly needs a favorable settlement to strengthen his hand in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (see THE NATION), yet cannot afford to antagonize either the Administration or the general public. Equally important, his own union-whose membership has fallen as the cost of auto labor has increased (see chart)-has been hard hit by layoffs in recent months and is in no mood for a strike. Result: for the first time since 1937, Reuther last week walked into the bargaining room with no headline-catching...