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...this climate. President Kennedy had a most pleasant week. He and Jackie toured Maryland's Antietam battlefield (his guide dutifully allowed as how the President was quite an expert on the bloodiest day of the Civil War). It took some frantic negotiations by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to get striking hot dog and soda pop vendors at D.C. Stadium to pull off their pickets so that the Democratic President could enter to watch the Washington Senators' opening game. Kennedy threw out the first ball and very nearly beaned a photographer...
Unemployment melted surprisingly in March and made the biggest drop in four years, from 6.1% to 5.6% of the labor force. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz took little satisfaction from the new statistics. "My feeling," he said, "is about what it would be if somebody's temperature dropped back from 104° to 103°.'' U.S. labor leaders are in fervent agreement with Wirtz, and their current pattern of contract negotiating is calculated to create jobs by spreading out the available work...
...opening table, "Where the Money Went" [March 29], arouses both my interest and ire as a long-suffering taxpayer. Is there possibly a nation, large or small, that has not lined up for its share of our largesse? WILLARD A. HEAPS New York City...
...guiding genius of the supply management approach is not Secretary Freeman but Willard Cochrane, 48, a professor of agricultural economics on leave from the University of Minnesota. Cochrane was Governor Freeman's agricultural adviser back in Minnesota. When Freeman went to Washington, he took Cochrane along as director of agricultural economics. As Cochrane sees it, price supports make stringent controls inescapable. "We offer the farmers price supports in return for cuts in production." he says. "It's a mutual thing. If they don't want effective controls, that's their prerogative. They can vote them...
During the hearings, the committee received information and advice from some 200 witnesses. Arguing for the Administration program were such officials as Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Budget Director Kermit Gordon, and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. also spoke up, along with the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Democratic Action, the Girl Scouts and, in the person of Ralph Bellamy, Actors Equity...