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...purpose of the small Boston demonstration is to express support for the Easter peace marches that will be held in major cities all over the world. While 30 to 50 people carrying signs is admittedly a token gesture, Tocsin members seem to feel that it is beter than nothing...
...week's end. Roosevelt's appointment -a token of President Kennedy's warm thanks for work during West Virginia's 1960 presidential primary-seemed assured. Only Winston Prouty had doubts. He thought it might yet be interesting to hear from an ex-partner in Roosevelt's Washington foreign-car dealership who sued F.D.R. Jr. and the Fiat Motor Co. for $9,000,000 a few years ago. The rest of the committee, both Republicans and Democrats, seemed mighty pleased when Junior vowed: "I will try to be purer than Caesar's wife." There were...
Back to the Commodore Hotel went the talk-weary publishers, who might have seen this problem approaching months ago. Aware that the Guild's members were anxious to get back to work, the publishers at first offered them only a token raise of $1.50 a week to take effect Nov.1, 1964. "Wholly inadequate," snapped Murphy, who wanted an extra $4 to make up the difference between the $8.50 package the Guild got last fall and the $12.50 won by the printers. He also wanted a citywide Guild shop, pension plan and medical program. The publishers upped their offer...
...Europeans to collaborate with the U.S. from scratch in targeting, contingency planning and control of atomic weapons; it would satisfy their acute desire for atomic know-how by giving them a thorough education in complex technological and financial nuclear realities. For both sides, it would provide an added, substantial token of U.S. determination to remain in Europe and defend its allies with the ultimate weapon, if necessary. Says a U.S. defense planner: "This is one thing that can put glue in the alliance...
...remodel an abandoned Wells Fargo stable; the hayloft still serves as the Reporter's city room. The International Typographical Union shipped sev eral carloads of equipment from Miami, including an ancient Hoe press that was dubbed "Little David," and leased the whole lot to the Reporter for a token $10 a year...