Word: wisconsin
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...urge that the nation's problems be solved "without bloodshed." Hatta obligingly announced that he would have "no part of any government formed under the pressure of rebel threats," and the Sultan of Djokiakarta took time off from examining model dairy farms at the University of Wisconsin to say mildly that his support was not pledged to either side...
...week's No. 1 witness was John Charles Doerfer, 53, a Wisconsin lawyer named to the FCC by President Eisenhower in 1953, and appointed chairman in mid-1957. Relentlessly, Schwartz piled up testimony and documents showing that Republican Doerfer had collected "honorariums" (not very lavish, usually $100) for speeches to various broadcasting-industry gatherings outside Washington. On these trips Doerfer traveled at Government expense, collecting $12 per diem allowances, although his hosts often paid his hotel bills. Most picked-over trip: a 1954 expedition during which Doerfer 1) took part in the dedication of a station KWTV tower...
KOHLER STRIKE, longest in U.S. history, is next target of Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate special investigating committee. Aim is to pinpoint acts of violence since U.A.W. struck Wisconsin plumbing-fixture firm 46 months ago. Top witnesses: Kohler Boss Herbert V. Kohler, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther...
...neutralist Nehru, who abominates home-grown Communists, Banda gave the full scope and support of his office to the island's most militant Marxist, shock-haired Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena, 58. A shouting, sarong-clad union boss who learned his leftism in the U.S.-at the University of Wisconsin and in Manhattan's Union Square-Gunawardena built his power month after month. By tying up island transport in incessant union warfare against rival Marxists, Gunawardena drove Banda to nationalize all buses Jan. 1. Later in the month, after even rougher bullyboy tactics by Gunawardena's dockworkers immobilized...
Died. Lawrence Henry Smith, 65, longtime (since 1941) anti-foreign-aid-and-trade Republican Representative from Wisconsin's First District (Racine, etc.); of coronary thrombosis; in Washington...