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...recommendations for boosting tariffs, foreign nations regarded quotas as much the lesser evil. They were fully aware that U.S. mine production has fallen while imports have climbed (see chart). Canadian politicians railed at the ruling, but Canadian miners were more subdued. "It's easier to get rid of a quota than a tariff," said V. C. Wansbrough, vice president of the Canadian Metal Mining Association...
...onetime Wayne County (Detroit) crime-busting prosecutor, onetime Michigan Democratic national committeeman, onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while the McClellan committee checked on Hoffa, Fitzgerald hired a private eye to ogle three committee investigators...
Long before the investigations cease, TV bigwigs may be ready to accept Herb Stempel's forthright solution for their scandal: "Get rid of giveaways. All these vaults and isolation booths are just obfuscation of the public. The networks can't control the gimmicks and the gizmos...
...food has saved many lives, U.S. assistance has brought the beginnings of economic progress to many nations. If such nations are still not healthy, they would have been sicker without aid-and prey to riot and revolution. And so, swallowing its misgivings, the U.S., in its newfound determination to rid itself of the stigma of hostility to Arab nationalism, is now even implicitly committed to give vital economic aid, on his own terms, to the Egyptian dictator whose propaganda spokesmen daily proclaim his contempt for the U.S. and all its works...
Last week three Boyd youths took direct action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...