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PEPSI-COLA. The boat ride winds through the canals of Walt Disney's doll land, past a tipsy Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal and Swiss Alps, while his prodigious puppets-leprechauns, sheiks, Cossacks, cancan dancers and Dutch boys and girls-sing and sway to beat the band...
...probably ask Congress to approve as an anti-cyclical weapon, is working on a new scheme to funnel excess federal revenues back to the states whenever a surplus is generated. His strong feeling that federal spending is too cumbersome to effect short-range control of the economy will probably sway Johnson away from the stand-by public works and other spending devices that were favored by the Kennedy Administration. When he hears complaints about federal programs, Johnson sometimes uses Gordon as a whiplash, phoning the appropriate agency and saying: "I've got the Budget Director at my desk. What...
Since the Pennsy wants nothing more these days than to merge with the New York Central, it will probably go along with the ICC and dispose of its stock to help sway the ICC to approve its own merger. Once the Pennsy agrees to sell the stock, the way would be cleared for the Norfolk & Western-Nickel Plate merger to take its place alongside the already approved linkage of the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio roads. If the ICC then approved the Pennsy and Central linkup, the Eastern U.S. would have three superroads that would carry 90% of its traffic...
Kitchel is also one of the few men who exercise sufficient intellectual sway over Goldwater to shape his opinions or persuade him to change his mind. It was Kitchel who convinced Goldwater of the crucial value of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (now one of Barry's main pitches) and who argued Goldwater into reversing his stand against the use of federal troops to enforce the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision. In his own quiet way, Kitchel downgrades his importance in the Goldwater lineup. "My position," he says, "has been that of a friend who counsels...
Fair Harvard holds sway...