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Since 1950's dramatic reversal, Bliss and the Ohio G.O.P. have suffered only one important setback. In 1958 a group of politically myopic Ohio businessmen succeeded in getting a right-to-work referendum on the ballot despite Bliss's impassioned warnings that the move would prove to be political poison. Governor William O'Neill endorsed right-to-work and lost, along with Senator John Bricker and scores of other Republicans. Furious at the costly meddling by amateurs, Bliss called 135 leading Ohio Republicans to a meeting, gave them a three-hour lecture course in practical politics...
...space exploration got a setback last week when the $10 million, gold-and chrome-plated Ranger V moon probe ran out of electric power before it neared the moon. The launch was perfect, but the spacecraft's solar-powered electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
...decision will have little immediate impact at the C. & N.W., where tough-minded Ben Heineman, who has already eliminated 600 telegraphers, plans to keep on all but 70 of the remaining 1,000 anyway. But in the long run it marked a stunning setback for the telegraphers. A year ago, Leighty's union extracted from the giant Southern Pacific a virtual guarantee to keep on all its telegraphers until their death or retirement and, with that encouragement, the telegraphers have since demanded a veto over job cutbacks on 33 other railroads. Now Garrett's decision rather than...
...movement to designate the intersection of Bow and Plympton Sts. "Elihu Yale Square" received another setback Monday, when the Cambridge City Council voted down a motion by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci to take the proposal from the Finance Committee...
...declining to call on the government for help. G.M. and Remington executives in France had lived up to their principles as free enterprisers. But they had also suffered a setback in public relations...