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...showdown, the Administration expected to win. But when the decisive vote came on a Republican motion to recommit the bill (send it back to the Agriculture Committee), the result was a stunning Administration defeat: 215 to 205 in favor of recommitting. Republicans voted almost unanimously against the bill-the lone Republican to vote for it (that is, against recommitting it) was Nebraska's Phil Weaver, a lame duck recently defeated in his primary race for renomination. But the Republicans could not have defeated the bill by themselves: they were joined by 48 Democrats...
Tacked to bulletin boards in the sprawling Lone Star Steel plant near Daingerfield in East Texas was a folksy message to the company's 4,600 employees: "I've got a can full of worms, a bucket of minnows and a cane pole, and I'm headed for the creek bank." Thus last week did white-haired, Stetson-hatted E. B. (for Eugene Benjamin) Germany, 69, announce his retirement after 15 years as president of one of Texas' most remarkable and controversial corporations. Continuing as chairman, Germany will be replaced as Lone Star's chief...
Chosen after a five-month search by Lone Star's board, Wilson is chipped from the same block as Gene Germany. Born in the Louisiana oilfields, Wilson got a law degree at Tulane. taught oil and gas law there until he was lured away to run a se ries of small oil companies. An avid collector of hunting rifles, Wilson relaxes by taking potshots at Texas' innumerable jack rabbits. "He must shoot thousands of them every year," says a friend. "He does it to keep his eye in practice...
...Most of the rolls are old standards (After the Ball, Ain't We Got Fun, The Old Rugged Cross), but new numbers from Broadway musicals and the transistor hit parade are added each week. The source of Macy's supply is the Q.R.S. Co. in The Bronx. Lone survivor of the once more than 50 U.S. roll makers, Q.R.S. sees brighter days ahead. Its artist-in-residence, J. Lawrence Cook, turns out the rolls by playing on a special piano rigged to a device like an IBM machine, which punches the proper holes in a master roll. Then...
...politicians in West Germany, as in the rest of Western Europe, it pays to be bourgeois these days. Hence the absence of Marxist slogans when the West German Socialists met in Cologne last week for their 1962 party convention. Hardly anyone called anyone else "comrade," and the lone red flag on the podium was half hidden behind a bank of hydrangeas and chrysanthemums. Outside in the convention hall's parking lot were the new caste marks of the delegates without dogma: Mercedeses, Opels and Volkswagens...