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...fellas, it's real nice of you to give us back the right to our Jewish city of Jerusalem [Dec. 27]! We're glad you're big enough to swallow your doubts and to tell the world you think Jews are fit to govern a city that's had a Jewish majority for the last 100 years...
Another possibility is that the Phase II wage-price restraints will break down, and inflation will once more swallow up most of the economy's gains. But the risk has receded in the past few weeks. The Price Commission has taken a tough line not only on prices but also on medical costs and rents. AFL-CIO unions are giving the Commission some help by sending shoppers into stores to check on prices. The Pay Board has been so snarled by quarreling among its labor, business and public members that it has not yet even worked out a form...
...that, when Richard Nixon announced another dollar devaluation, the predominant reaction throughout Western civilization was one of relief. Richard Kattel, president of The Citizens & Southern Bank of Georgia, expressed the new American mood: "I think devaluation is a good thing. It will make us more competitive overseas. We have swallowed the hardest pill we had to swallow -our pride...
...does not exceed the guideline. Some union pay increases-and those of nonunion employees that traditionally are granted at the same time-will doubtless continue to exceed the guideline for a while. Labor Secretary James Hodgson admitted as much last week by noting that the Administration fully expected to "swallow" a few extra large settlements early in Phase 11. These included the 15% pay boost granted coal miners in the first year of a new contract and a pact giving railroad signalmen a more than 16% raise, which was approved last week by the Pay Board. But all settlements involving...
...timidity or weakness was seized upon and exploited. No action, however generous or fairminded, could reap any reward." As for Dulles, his "vanity more than equalled his talents." At first Dulles told Britain that after seizing the canal, Nasser must be made to "disgorge what he was attempting to swallow." Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course. By Macmillan's count, Dulles switched signals at least three times upon taking the canal issue to the TJ.N...