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Strikes: The President should have power to impose compulsory arbitration on the two sides when a strike threatens the nation's welfare. (Present law makes no provision for compulsory arbitration, and the Administration has never recommended...
...Arkansas some 20 years ago as migrant farm workers, pinched their dollars, and with earnest pride bought their own land on a sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their water, Teviston people had to go to nearby Pixley or Earlimart and haul it back in battered milk cans and oil drums. They measured their status by the number of cans and drums that they...
...state employees. The peasants who peddle produce in open-market stands work for collective farms. In theory, all the service and retail trades in Russia are nationalized. But in fact, to judge by the most recent hue and cry in the Moscow press, the entrepreneur in human nature is never dead, and a moral smog hangs over Russia. In the world's most advanced socialist state, private enterprise, profiteering, and just plain payoffs seem to be bursting out all over...
Poacher & Pro. At 35, Mankowitz has already put his characters into novels (Old Soldiers Never Die, A Kid for Two Farthings) and movies (The Bespoke Overcoat, Expresso Bongo). He has turned them loose in plays, short stories, poems, TV shows and news stories. He also finds time to serve as a successful theater and TV producer, a TV panelist, an internationally respected authority on Wedgwood china (he is co-owner of London's largest china shop), and he is the author of three books on pottery. "The theater," says Mankowitz. "is fair game. I reserve the right to poach...
...asks a Continental executive. "I'll say he does. Not just 100% - about 106%." Clay has a photographic memory that enables him to keep track of minute details, often confounds others with his knowledge. He is a relentlessly driving executive who needs little sleep, maintains iron discipline, is never wholly satisfied with the performance of his subordinates (all of whom address him as "general"). Says an old friend: "He is still the same old impossible so-and-so that he was in the Army - and he still produces results." Clay got most of his results by applying military-organization...