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...89th Congress has been so willing to give Lyndon Johnson what he wants that just about everyone figured that it would zip right through its agenda and be ready to go home in September. Not everyone is willing to go along quite so easily, however, particularly when it comes to a matter of principle. Just such a matter now threatens to hold congressional adjournment up indefinitely. It is the repeal of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Law, the famous right-to-work clause. This week the bill, already passed by the House, is scheduled to come...
...boys zip in and out of settings that include Buckingham Palace and their own fun-house apartment, which is carpeted with wall-to-wall grass kept mowed by a gaitered rustic. Meanwhile, the color camera dances in and out of focus, zooms up and away, tilts with the music, splashes light like liquid, and cuts so fast from this to that that the effect is almost subliminal...
...engine planes, 400 to 700 a mile or $75 to $120 per hour of flying time for twin-engine models. For busy men, the time saved makes the cost worthwhile. Fully one-fifth of the passengers on Jacksonville's Gateway Aviation are lawyers, who for $85 each can zip 170 miles to Tallahassee, the state capital, and back in 2 hr. 10 min. v. an eight-hour trip by auto. Many taximen provide sandwiches and drinks, sell flight insurance, even let holders of well-known credit cards charge their flights...
...fired twice, and zip, zip, a round went by each ear. Then he bought me another absinthe. 'Next time we kill you.'" See PRESS, Where the Action...
...stopped him in the street, invited him into a cafe for an absinthe, then pulled a pistol on him. "I was not going to plead with him," Faas recalls. "I heard him cocking the pistol. I thought, 'Now I get it.' He fired twice, and zip, zip, a round went by each ear. Then he bought me another absinthe. 'Next time we kill...