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...show. "He asked that his son be appointed president of the company. During the course of the discussion, Mr. Beck got quite angry, and I refused to go along with his demands. [But then] I received a call from my brother [saying that the Teamsters] refused to unload this particular truckload of whisky. So I mentioned it to Mr. Beck. And Mr. Beck says, 'Well, you see what I mean, Levine, you don't get along very good with the members of Local 174, and my family is stockholders in your company. We have got to protect...
...three kings seemed to have cut loose from Nasser on East-West issues, they appeared bent on making it up to their brother Arab by re-emphasizing their solidarity against Israel. After the U.S. flag tanker Kern Hills, on Israeli charter, sailed through the Gulf of Aqaba to unload Iranian oil at the Israeli port of Elath, the Saudis informed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold that they considered the gulf a closed Arab sea, and that if Israeli ships tried to pass they would "oppose" them. In rapid succession Iran, Iraq, Syria, and even the West's staunch friend...
...ROAD POLICY, now being debated in Washington, may bail out recently built state turnpikes that are financial flops, raise value of depressed turnpike bonds. New plan would link turnpikes into $33.5 billion U.S. highway program, have Government reimburse states for their costs. Kansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky are hoping to unload some turnpikes onto federal network, possibly turn toll roads into free U.S. highways...
...supertanker Eastern Sun off the coast of South Africa crackled a radio message from home: instead of heading for company docks at Marcus Hook, Pa., unload cargo of 220,000 bbls. of crude oil in "the United Kingdom area." The same oil-to-Europe word was flashed out to dozens of other tankers all over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans last week. In Washington the U.S. moved to ease Western Europe's oil shortage brought about by the blocking of the Suez Canal...
Banners flowed forward into the spotlights: "Nous Sommes Madly for Adlai," "Adlai Likes Me," and "We Don't Want Nixon." The loudspeaker screamed "We won't be able to unload Adlai if you don't get back...