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What the Executive Council most objected to was the so-called "bill of rights," sponsored by Arkansas Democratic Senator John McClellan and added to the Kennedy bill midway through Senate debate on the measure as a floor amendment. In a private analysis circulated to the council members, A.F.L.-C.I.O. lawyers pointed out that "arguing against these rights [free speech, the right of rank-and-file union members to bring court action against their leaders, etc.] is like arguing in favor of sin." But the bill of rights was in fact "an invitation to litigation, a fertile source of conflict between...
...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...
...mile, Benjamin had the aid of a new opponent--half-miler Art Cahn, running his first race at the mile distance. Cahn stayed with Benjamin through a 61.0 quarter and a 2:06 880, and he even passed his teammate momentarily midway in the third lap. But Benjamin pulled away, practically sprinting the entire last lap, and finished 75 yards in front...
...Midway in the NATO Council meeting in Washington, the delegates stopped to send a message of friendship and sympathy to the man who seemed to personify the spirit of the week's unified stand against Communist threats: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. But Dulles needed sympathy less last week, perhaps, than at any time since he turned into Walter Reed Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. Just 840 miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary...
...clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been able to make a photographic record of the clouds or their movements...