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...provisions in four major Administration measures. For another, the House had deleted a proposal to increase each Senator's office payroll by $5,000. But about all the Senate could do was sputter. Cried Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "This is indeed an outrage perpetrated on the Senate." Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey threatened reprisal at the next session: "We're going to have some legislative regurgitation." Cried Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally mild to a fault: "We have taken a shellacking, and I think it's outrageous." Then the Senate, faced by the House fait accompli, swallowed hard...
...Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation owner equipped (in A.D. 1961) with a bull whip and not-quite-so-unbelievable quips ("You tryin' to get non-violent with...
...Body plant near Pittsburgh. McCarrell, who had already defied Reuther by refusing to let a national U.A.W. representative sit in on the Pittsburgh negotiations, vowed that he would not call his men back until he had won concessions on local work rules and seniority procedures. And McCarrell held the whip hand; since his plant turns out body parts for all five G.M. automaking divisions, he was capable of stifling G.M.'s entire output. When he learned of McCarrell's rebellion, Reuther growled: "If those fellows in Pittsburgh tell us to go to hell, then we are going...
Trying to whip the tired, sullen masses into greater production, the Communist regime now allows farmers to have their own small plots of land, raise chickens and pigs privately in addition to their work in the production brigades, and sell their produce in the towns and keep the profits. This has promoted a black market in edibles that flow to special luxury restaurants, where highly paid government officials can dine without ration cards. But the limited "free market" produces its own social problems; it not only encourages conspicuous luxury buying by a privileged few in full view of the hungry...
...Lucius DuBignon Clay, 64, giant Continental Can Co. will don civvies again. General Clay, newly named as President Kennedy's personal representative to Berlin, turned the chief executive officer's post over to Continental's strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) President Thomas Cyril Fogarty, 57. A whip-smart packaging expert who has been at Continental for 32 years, Fogarty will keep mobilized the battle units that General Clay set up to overcome rival American Can Co.'s sales dominance in the can industry. But aides expect the jovial Fogarty to relax Clay's iron discipline...