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...third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that he wanted a haircut, shave, bath, sleep. As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room. "Ah," said a reporter...
...started it. N.M.U. demanded a $17.50 a month wage boost, which the Government approved. Then rival A.F.L. seamen demanded $22.50-$27.50 boosts. The Wage Stabilization Board, believing that its duty was to hold the wage line, tried to limit A.F.L. to the C.I.O increase. Warned brilliant, 34-year-old Willard Wirtz, onetime law teacher, ardent puzzle fan and chief of WSB: this is a "stepladder" approach to further demands which would mean the end of Harry Truman's badly bent stabilization program...
...With no results of the scramble available as yet, the outlook still seems muddled. Big Tom Fell, veteran of three years of college and naval football, seems to have the inside track at the moment, but he's not more than a step ahead of 200-pound George Hauptfuhrer, Willard McDaniel, Bob Kennedy (son of Ambassador Joe,) 1942 letterman Len Cummings, and Walt Coulson, 1944 star...
...rise in food prices moved Wage Stabilization Board Chairman Willard Wirtz to sound a warning: "Unless the prices of essential foods . . . are recontrolled and rolled back . . . the wage problems cannot be met thereafter...
...Washington's Willard Hotel 511 rapt students from 36 states plunked down their $12 tuition fees. In return they received an intensive four-day course in "practical politics" from the faculty of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. They were also handed some conflicting clues in the search for a liberal political party...