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...recent decision of the Federal arbitration panel combines an understanding of the railroads' plight with a sympathy for the workers involved. Useless positions must be abolished, but the men now holding those positions must also be considered. The rail unions' exercise in self-interest hurts the labor movement generally at a time when it faces an uncertain future. By stubbornly resisting a series of impartial decisions, the railroad Brotherhoods serve neither their cause, management's needs nor the country's interest...
...Branford's ground game began to click. Quarterback John Ashcroft, who led the drives, plunged over from the three-yard line for the score after being hit in his own backfield. Halfback Doc Marshall slanted off tackle for the crucial two-point conversion and Topkins' last minute passes proved useless...
...Your bloodcurdling article on hunting [Nov. 1] is a horrifying expose of the so-called "sport," particularly when it describes the extracurricular torture that goes into the training of the dogs who accompany the stonehearted hunters. Not content with killing for the pleasure of useless killing, often leaving wounded birds and animals to die a lingering death, these "sportsmen" must inflict carefully planned refinements of agony on the luckless pooches who are to be their helpers...
...that the Mikawa was an "underground palace," could have retorted that government inspectors had found Mikawa to be among the best-equipped mines in the country. The government could point out that the stretch of track where the collision occurred was equipped with modern safety devices-but they proved useless because the entire chain of events, from the derailment of the freight cars to the arrival of the third train, took less than 30 seconds...
...philosopher not because he is explaining the policy of others but because the perspective of the diplomat and the philosopher are so widely different. As a private citizen and a public candidate, Stevenson time and again stressed the importance of cooperation with the Russians; repeatedly he declared useless a policy based on anti-Soviet attacks. Yet more than half of the U.N. speeches in this volume are little more than anti-Soviet propaganda. In these speeches, of course, Stevenson does not abandon his over-all philosophy. But in responding to an anti-imperialist circular, or commenting on the 100th Soviet...