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Only Sop. Suddenly the rest of labor's legislative program is in deep trouble. A prime example: repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head...
...retirement at Sagamore Hill, the family estate in New York. His random reminiscences of hunting and politicking are interrupted by a visit from three old political allies (all invisible, of course), asking him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination against his own handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Taft has strayed from the "progressive" Rooseveltian principles he once propounded, stoking Teddy's competitive fires for one last, glorious battle. But the decision to abandon the comforts of private life and re-enter the "arena" does not come easily for Roosevelt, who resorts to a chronological review...
Assistant Attorney General Peter Taft, who drafted Justice's brief, hopes that Congress will decide on a one-shot cash and land settlement of the Indian claim; the Government would presumably provide the bulk of the cash, as it did in the $1 billion Alaska native claims settlement of 1971. If there is no settlement by June 1, the Justice Department would start filing suits-most likely against paper companies with large landholdings. The outcome-in either legislation or litigation-could set the pattern for the settlement of similar yet smaller Indian land claims in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut...
...sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing North Atlantic that night--most of them Irish and Eastern European immigrants travelling in steerage class--was buried deep in the inside pages, hidden below another tragedy, the Giants' Christy...
City boys seem to sense the change too. In the past few years, aggressively recruiting coaches have skimmed away the best talent from New York's playgrounds. If one wanted to see the pro prospects turned out by high school powerhouses like DeWitt Clinton, Taft, Boys High, Power Memorial, and Canarsie in action, the best bet was to watch Nevada-Las Vegas or Tennessee on television...