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...fervent evangelist for the mutual interests of labor and management, who knows how to sell the idea to both sides. His selling device: the Scanlon Plan, designed to 1) cut the worker in on the adventure, the decisions and the profits of increased production, and 2) help management tap the ingenuity of employees as a means of improving production...
Caveat Emptor. In Lubbock, Texas, Detectives Jack Hunnicutt and Claude Keaton spotted a man selling suspicious-looking bottles for $1 each to street-corner passersby, followed him to his cache, discovered an additional 30 bottles, gave up the investigation when they proved to contain 100% tap water...
...Senator Claro Recto is an adroit corporation lawyer and the party's most vociferous voice in the Senate. Back in 1953, when the party badly needed a popular presidential candidate, Senator Recto had a major voice in the decision to reach into the Liberal Party and tap able young Ramon Magsaysay, then busy hunting down the Communist Huks as Defense Minister in the Quirino government. Ever since, Senator Recto has acted like a man who regretted his choice...
Goodie's biggest fight since becoming governor has been his struggle to save California's "rainy-day fund," a savings account accumulated from wartime surpluses, and which now amounts to some $70 million. Legislators have eagerly sought to tap the fund for vote-getting largesse. In an effort to save the rainy-day fund, Goodie doggedly proposed added taxes on luxuries. Recently, while Knight was attending a funeral, the assembly passed an amendment that would have drained off $40 million from the rainy-day fund. Next day Goodie sprang to action, summoned his key legislators for a dressing...
...governor walks with a springy step these days. His appetite is big, but between his morning setting-up exercises and the calorie-consciousness of his wife, he has recently trimmed his weight to a muscular 182 Ibs. No longer athletically inclined, Goodie keeps in trim by tap-dancing and shadow-boxing whenever and wherever the fancy strikes him. His blond hair has silvered satisfactorily, and his craggily handsome face is tanned and as well-creased as an heirloom Gladstone bag. Goodie gave up smoking after he got ulcers; instead, he chews up to two packs of Doublemint...