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Charm in the Evening. As the critical speeches sputtered on, the once unflappable Mac began a desperate buttonholing campaign to moderate the views of Commonwealth officials and avert a flatly hostile final communiqué. Recruiting Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to help with the lobbying, Macmillan exerted all his considerable charm at small meetings, between sessions, at the evening receptions, even at Queen Elizabeth's banquet for the Commonwealth leaders in Buckingham Palace...
When the President announced his nomination, Wirtz was in Chicago with Goldberg, helping in a last unsuccessful effort to avert a strike against the Chicago & North Western, the U.S.'s third biggest railroad in track mileage. When Goldberg and Wirtz got back to Washington, they hurriedly washed up to get ready for a joint press conference. Goldberg asked Wirtz if he wanted to borrow a clean shirt. "No thanks," cracked Wirtz. "I'd rather try on your shoes...
...employer. Garment union staffers, he argues, are not "just job holders," but rather "missionaries out to convert the unorganized." As he sees it, the leaders of FOUR "can only be prompted by the commercialism of our times," and are out to create "dual loyalties" within his union. To avert that calamity, Dubinsky has decided upon a course taken by many a capitalist before him: he vows to fight the NLRB ruling through every possible court, a process which could delay FOUR's recognition as a certified bargaining agent for another year and a half...
Today, 20% of the office space in Salisbury is vacant, and only by imposing rigid exchange controls has the federation government managed to avert a crippling flight of capital. On the London Stock Exchange, shares in Rhodesian Selection Trust, one of the titans of the Copper Belt, have dropped from 37 shillings to 25-despite the fact that they pay an 18% annual dividend...
...President's promise was part of a hastily mounted Administration drive to avert a further slide on Wall Street and to restore business confidence. Earlier in the week. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, in a speech to New York financial writers, implied blandly that the Administration had been planning to cut taxes all along. In fact, until Wall Street's Blue Monday, Kennedy and Dillon had conceived of the tax-reform plan-which they hope to push through Congress next year -primarily as a measure to close loopholes and eliminate inequities...