Word: setbacks
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Confronted with this setback, Ben-Gurion's ministers suddenly began to have second thoughts about raising taxes. And to bolster up his own apathetic party, the Premier called home articulate, erudite Abba Eban, 44, Israel's able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that...
...Republican has special misgivings about prospects for the Administration's labor bill. Reason: Arizona's open-shop advocate, Barry Goldwater, because of his seniority on the Labor Committee, will be the G.O.P.'s ranking Senate spokesman. Moderate Republicans fear that their program will get an automatic setback under Goldwater's wing; most recollect powerfully his fondness for the right-to-work laws that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising...
...Dickson Letts appointed monitors to supervise the activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in preparation for elections which were to be held during the following year. The IBT's success in organizing a group of employees at Cape Canaveral missile test center last week was not a catastrophic setback for the opponents of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Brewster, but an appropriate final touch in the Teamsters' exhibition of the complete impotence of the reforming forces of organized labor...
Mitchell's sharpest setback came last week in the President's news conference. Asked about extension of the emergency law, Eisenhower came back with a broad negative. "I don't think this is the time to put the Federal Government back into a thing of this kind, this kind of function, when we are on a curve of rising prosperity." To which Mitchell's allies reply: the soundest way to head off pump-priming pressures is to strengthen unemployment protection until employment rides along up the curve...
...What almost proved McDonnell's undoing was No. 3, an ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon. It proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco for the Navy (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955). The setback would have crippled many companies, but McDonnell kept arguing that the plane was basically sound, proved it with a more powerful Allison J-71 engine which made the Demon so hot that the Navy eventually boosted its orders to $450 million...