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...maybe more so, Harvard's editors are sticklers for detail, specialize in clarifying "what the law is," typically dug out the dusty minutes of an 1815 bank officers' meeting last winter in order to verify one quote. Among Harvard's star sticklers: the late Robert A. Taft, Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Yale's new President Kingman Brewster...
...steel is a vital factor in the economy of every industrialized nation, and few nations have kept a closer watch on that price than the U.S. Whenever steelmen even talk about raising prices, a storm rises over official Washington. Congress has investigated almost every steel price rise since Robert Taft led an angry probe into one of the first postwar hikes in 1948, and federal authorities have long grumbled that steel prices seem to have little regard for the law of supply and demand. Last week a federal grand jury made that charge official by indicting the nation...
Little Chance. The reluctance among some Ohio Democrats to drop Glenn is easily understood. They figure that Steve Young has little chance of defeating the odds-on favorite to win the G.O.P. primary, Congressman Robert A. Taft Jr. Now Glenn stands to draw a sizable but meaningless vote in the primary, and Steve Young will be the Democrats' man. And the way political observers see it, that probably means Ohio will have another Taft as Senator...
...Organized labor has blown hot and cold on President Johnson during the course of his long political career. When he first came to Congress as a New Dealing Texas Democrat, labor's leaders loved him. But then, under the Truman Administration, he voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, and the unionists neither forgave nor forgot; in 1960 Johnson was the only major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who was opposed by Big Labor, and Walter Reuther protested volubly against Johnson's being named Kennedy's running mate. But by last week labor had come full circle...
...inherited their faith. Five of the first ten Presidents were Episcopalian because in Virginia, where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called the River...