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Crisis Unto Crisis. This was the situation faced by President Johnson. He had already ordered Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to try to negotiate a strike postponement. Wirtz made little headway. Johnson hereupon summoned management and labor negotiators to the White House. There, in the Cabinet Room, he read a prepared statement: "Although this railroad crisis has gone on for over four years, it has now been brought to a crisis stage with less than 48 hours available for last-ditch collective bargaining. This does not give the bargaining process a fair chance. It does not give the country...
...umpteenth time, management negotiators were willing to agree to a request by a U.S. President. But the brotherhood leaders, over dinner at the Willard Hotel, decided to refuse-except under conditions unacceptable to anyone but themselves...
...manager and trainer of prizefighters-the most famous of whom was Jack Dempsey. One chapter of that book, published in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, contained Kearns's claim that he had packed the bandages on Dempsey's fists with plaster before the 1919 bout in which Dempsey gave Jess Willard a painful beating. Dempsey had no knowledge of the deed, Kearns said, and when SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approached Dempsey before printing the Kearns story, the old champ hotly denied the whole thing. His denial was printed along with Kearns's story...
Last week sometime Restaurateur Dempsey brought suit for $3,000,000 in libel damages against Time Inc., publishers of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Said Dempsey in his complaint to the New York Supreme Court: "My gloves were not 'loaded' when I defeated Jess Willard. I won the championship fairly...
...attack was far rustier. Lou Williams scored nine goals, and ranged all over the field to snare loose balls and terrorize smaller opponents. Dick Ames and Ted Leary scored only two goals apiece, however, and had trouble feeding Williams and the midfielders. Bo Willard played briefly and scored one goal, but will have to improve his shot to be much help...