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...Friend George Smathers who drew most of the anger of White House aides for his anti-medicare vote, since he was an usher at Kennedy's wedding, is Democratic conference secretary, yet repeatedly votes against Kennedy on key issues ("He hasn't stood up for Jack since the wedding," goes a White House wisecrack). Heavy pressure had been exerted to capture Senator Randolph's decisive vote, including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive...
...labor's support of the Bill is not a fair standard in judging their feelings about it; it is possible to favor the Bill, and still have serious doubts that it will usher in the Golden Age of American Labor the President predicts. That, Indeed, I take to be labor's position; and, for all the good it does labor, its feelings and mine coincide on this point. Union leaders must wonder, as I do, why the major place of economic legislation proposed by the President has only so tenuous a bearing on the country's major economic...
...born. When prayer ("Dear Lord, if you will let my dear baby Chuckie live") saved his son from a serious illness, Billington, then an Akron rubber worker, promised to preach. True to his word, he began "Bible searching'' after work, found a job as an usher-bouncer in a revival temple. By 1932 he was broadcasting sermons over "Radio Station WJW-Watch Jesus Win." Two years later he was ordained...
What Lies Ahead. Washington hailed the agreement as noninflationary, and passed word that it might well usher in a new era in labor relations. That is just what many businessmen-and union chiefs-are afraid of. Arthur Goldberg is not a man to let the headlines go by, and the steel negotiators are miffed because he hogged the limelight and made it appear as if the Kennedy Administration alone was responsible for bringing statesmanship to steel. Growled the American Metal Market: "Free collective bargaining, which has been on the way out the window, may have gone...
Married. Edward ("Kookie") Byrnes, 28, jive-talking junior shamus of TV's 77 Sunset Strip; and Alabama-born Cinema Starlet Asa Maynor, 24; at Beverly Hills' All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Sunset Strip Colleagues Roger Smith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as best man and usher...