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...fact, a lot is happening. Some 260,000 General Motors workers are on strike. A national dockworkers' strike has been postponed because President Johnson invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. Inland Steel Corp. Chairman Joe Block, the man who broke away from other steelmakers to support John Kennedy during the steel hassle in 1962, was making noises about a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that...
...Subject A." On his first day out, Nixon barnstormed New England, told 240 Republicans at a $ 1,000-a-plate dinner in Portsmouth, N.H.: "Any statesman who is open-minded must consider facts and retain principles. Bob Taft did it years ago in housing and education. Above all else, Goldwater is a man of principle. You know he'll keep his word. Look who's raising this question. Have you ever looked over Lyndon Johnson's record...
Republicans had also expected modest gains in the Senate, where such strong challengers as Ohio's Robert Taft Jr., Texas' George Bush and Wisconsin's Wilbur Renk had a good chance to unseat incumbent Democrats. Some of them still may make it, but their chances have diminished. Even such incumbent Republicans as New York's Kenneth Keating and Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott are in more difficulty than they ought to be. Similarly, such G.O.P. gubernatorial candidates as Charles Percy in Illinois, George Romney in Michigan, Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley in Missouri, and Withrop Rockefeller...
...oaths for union leaders under the Taft-Hartley Act, Black tartly informed his colleagues that "the First Amendment forbids compromise." When the Court upheld the 1951 conviction of Communist leaders for teaching and advocating violent overthrow of the Government-thereby upholding the Smith Act, heir to World War I's Sedition Act-Black protested that the decision "waters down the First Amendment so that it amounts to little more than an admonition to Congress." He was trying to save principles, not Communists...
...week the union answered by calling a strike that tied up ports from Maine to Texas, stalling tons of cargo and forcing travelers to carry their own bags. On a request from President Johnson, a federal court ordered the longshoremen back to work after one day. Thanks to the Taft-Hartley Act, the strike will probably be postponed for a "cooling-off" period of 80 days. That means the U.S. can look forward to another shipping showdown during Christmas week...