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Bomber Threat. The next day, according to an agreement quietly worked out by the U.S. and Russia, there occurred in the seas off Cuba one of the strangest scenes in maritime history. U.S. warships pulled up alongside homeward-bound Soviet freighters while Russian crewmen obediently pulled back the canvas wrappings...
But no one, least of all President Kennedy, was trying to con the press. His two chief press liaison officers were working overtime, by direct presidential order, to keep reporters thoroughly informed. Arthur Sylvester, 61, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and a former newsman himself (37 years on...
Last week's ruling was the work of Sylvester Garrett, 50, a Pittsburgh lawyer who earned his reputation as an arbitrator in steel industry disputes and was appointed three weeks ago by President Kennedy to end a month-long telegraphers' strike against the C. & N.W. (The other two...
Chairman Ben Heineman nor Telegraphers' Chief George E. Leighty would yield on the strike's key question: the union's demand for the right to veto future job cutbacks. This and other unresolved issues will be submitted to binding arbitration this week by a three-man team...
To become the new president of the association, the lawyers last week inaugurated Sylvester C. Smith Jr., a onetime "country lawyer" in New Jersey who is now general counsel of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America. A robust deep-water sailor (he races a 43-ft. auxiliary sloop), Smith is...