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...Administration has not given up the anti-inflation game entirely. John Dunlop, director of the C.O.L.C., is known as a muscular arm-twister who has been able to quash price increases with subtle combinations of browbeating and incentives. Dunlop, for instance, decontrolled such industries as autos, rubber and fertilizer in exchange for promises that executives would voluntarily hold down their prices and, in some cases, step up their output. Recently he said that he might urge the Administration, perhaps through the Federal Energy Office, to allocate scarce building materials to parts of the country where construction unions agree to only...
English was 13th after the third round, only one point out of tenth. But despite his failure to make the finals, he dove extremely well with only a four-and-a-half on a difficult two-and-a-half twister preventing him from scoring...
...details. Nixon will not even be the man watching over the bargaining sessions and the eventual enforcement of pay-price rules. He has given that job to Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear for his spot on the Republican ticket next year...
...ADMINISTRATION Return of a Texas Twister...
...sometimes speaks in the earthy parables of L.B.J.'s Pedernales folklore. Observing the shrewd, assertive style that Connally brought to Washington as Secretary of the Treasury, Alabama's Congressman George Andrews breathed a sigh of déjà vu: "You look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile: "I'm just an old country boy. I learned a long time ago, I'm not smart enough to be devious...