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...were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford...
With Meany so vigorously in command, labor experts say that he will not only stay in office for as long as he likes, but will probably be able to pick his successor when he does decide to go. Meany's most likely choice is Lane Kirkland, 52, now the AFL-CIO'S secretary-treasurer. Although Kirkland is not "a man to set 'em on fire," in the words of one union official, he is respected as an able, knowledgeable and tough-minded leader. He is also something of a diplomat. Kirkland keeps telling people that he will...
...plot itself is the entertainment--doors constantly opening and closing: first one then two characters forced to hide in the closet. Here the plot is about as lissome as a set of steel girders on which to hang puns, blowing like so many colored handkerchiefs with the command "laugh" emblazoned on there...
...rested (not to mention 10 lbs. lighter), Brezhnev discussed European security, trade and the Middle East with Wilson. Although his voice seemed a bit more slurred than usual, he made a 20-rninute speech before Soviet television cameras, giving the impression of a man who was fit and in command-at least as far as anyone could...
...some political observers, the real surprise was not that Heath went down to defeat but that he had stayed in command of the party as long as he had. His general-election record was poor (one win and three losses to Harold Wilson's Labor!tes). He also had a largely well-deserved reputation for refusing to take anyone's counsel but his own, as well as an unendearing public image as a prickly, self-righteous schoolmaster. Paradoxically, some of the handicaps that led to his downfall had helped keep him in power. After ten years of Heath...