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Sunderland took over some massive headaches apart from sinking profits. Among them: Fidel Castro's confiscation of 272,472 acres of United Fruit sugar and cattle lands in Cuba; a 1958 anti-trust consent decree requiring United Fruit, by 1970, to divest itself of roughly one-third of its banana import business...
...field of international reporting: the New York Times's A. M. (for Abraham Michael) Rosenthal, who was ordered to leave Poland for probing too deeply into its internal problems. One of the least surprising and most deserved awards: to Allen Drury for his bestselling novel. Advise and Consent, on official Washington. In England last week ex-New York Timesman Drury was asked for his views of U.S. presidential candidates, answered like a true statesman. On the Democrats: "Johnson, Stevenson, Kennedy and Humphrey are all intelligent men and would make good Presidents." As for the G.O.P.: "Nixon has some principles...
When he left, he believed that what he had to offer France was "a last resort selected in advance," which Frenchmen knew "could be invoked by common consent as soon as a new laceration threatened the nation." It took a dozen years to prove him right...
...Advise and Consent,Drury...
...lifted the issue from one involving only one-man stations to one that posed the central question of the right to end featherbedding. The union warned that it would go out on strike unless the railroad promised not to eliminate any job established before Dec. 3, 1957 without union consent. North Western refused to bargain, headed off the strike by getting a court injunction, which the union appealed. The Supreme Court ruled that elimination of jobs is a lawful bargaining point, and hence federal courts are barred under the Norris-La Guardia Act from enjoining railroad unions from striking...