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...temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage board with power to lower wage increases and to impose settlements if necessary. If labor did not agree, Hodgson warned, the President might establish such a board by executive order. The emissaries cajoled in vain. "How can I go back to my members and tell them that I've agreed with a Republican President to decrease their raises?" asked one union boss. "They'd throw...
...refuse. In the center of the canvas huddles a family, dark and enclosed in helplessness, surrounded by boxes, perhaps even attache cases, brimming with stacks of the dead and dying. Lichtblau dwells on the family and small social groups, enclosed in tightly-drawn, womb-like shapes which symbolize the vain attempts at insulation from a dying urban culture. The figures are trapped in the painting's debris. Behind them pushes the boatman, a favorite image of Lichtbrau, in Charon-like darkness, bearing a kneeling passenger...
...McGovern opposed the ABM and MIRV programs. He has blasted the Nixon defense budget as offering "no respite from the costly interventionist policies of previous administrations. It does not reflect at all the much heralded 'winding down' of the Indochina war. It seeks the same objectives and hopes in vain that they can be achieved with fewer American lives and more American money." He advocated that the $75 billion defense budget be cut by at least $20 billion...
...diction and rhetoric are traditional enough, as are his subjects: nature, religion, aging, death, love. They reveal a man with an abiding desire to be isolated, unclocked, unshackled by the limelight. At times this shows directly: "Beyond the coffin confines of telephone booths, my arms stretch to read, in vain." At times it appears obliquely: "Poor fish who knew the sea why did you dare...
...breed, they were a phenomenon from the start. Within TIME. they swiftly established themselves as experts whom, as Luce once put it, "levitous writers cajole in vain and managing editors learn humbly to appease." Before long the TIME research system was emulated by communication firms, the arts, government and industry...