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...quarrel between unions and railroad management can be was shown last week, when the railroads proposed to lay off 40,000 firemen who, they say, are unnecessary aboard diesel locomotives. The five railroad brotherhoods countered by threatening to call a paralyzing nationwide strike. At week's end, the showdown was averted when the unions won a court order temporarily enjoining the railroads from firing the firemen...
...record. The two papers had been silenced for 113 days−nearly two weeks longer than the previous record, established during a 1953 strike of the Seattle Times. As the Star and Tribune scrambled to get back into print, it was painfully clear that in the protracted and expensive showdown everyone was the loser...
Williams argues that the Bill of Rights is most endangered today not by the attacks of overzealous district attorneys and congressional committee chairmen but by public apathy. In a showdown, Williams fears that the majority of the American people would gladly trade the Bill of Rights for "a guarantee of total economic security until death." Noting that Chief Justice Earl Warren once said he doubted that the Bill of Rights would now be passed by Congress, Williams goes him one better: "I am doubtful that it would ever get out of committee...
Memory Fades. A showdown was bound to come, and last week Strauss proved that if he was not loved, at least he was needed. The autonomous Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. was split between a conservative Catholic wing and a liberal Protestant faction, and to heal the breach, an appeal was made to Strauss, a Catholic, to run for minister-president (governor) of Bavaria in November. Deliberately, Strauss let it be known that he was homesick after all, and perhaps it would be nice to return to Munich...
...years in full arrears, but excepts any state that cannot pay "due to conditions beyond the control of the member," a phrase that can mean too many things to too many countries. And by paying only part of its debt each year, a member country can put off a showdown with the Charter provision indefinitely-while still refusing to pay for U.N. operations it dislikes...