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From the refusal of a dozen-odd union officials, i.e., hoodlums, to testify, from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many...
Previews also keeps a careful eye on depreciated slum areas that may go industrial, is gradually increasing its trade in land for industrial purposes. Tysen is negotiating with Belgian government officials about industrial development of the Inga Rapids area of the Congo River, a vast, water-rich slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna...
...McCone to the Air Policy Commission, where he helped Thomas K. Finletter write the farseeing 1948 report on the need for U.S. airpower, Survival in the Air Age. He was appointed Air Force Under Secretary under Finletter in 1950, for 16 months campaigned tirelessly for a bigger Air Force slice of the defense budget...
KQED, one of the U.S.'s most dignified stations (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), is dependent on such undignified auctions and fund drives for almost a third of its $360,000 yearly expenditures. The major slice of its income (about $155,000) comes from the sale of its filmed programs, which are sold to Ann Arbor's Educational Television & Radio Center for nationwide distribution to ETV stations. Most impressive KQED films: Sing Hi, Sing Lo, a history of the U.S. told through folklore and folk song; a series on Japanese brush painting taught by Artist Takahike Mikami: Fallout...
...singled out Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which have been trying for years to outdo each other with fancy extras that sell more tickets, as chief purveyors of smorgasbord-type sandwiches on their flights. Samples (from the SAS menu): five slices of ox tongue, a lettuce heart, asparagus and sliced carrots-on a slice of bread; five slices of liver pate, fried crisp bacon, mushrooms and sliced tomato-on a slice of bread. Seconds are available for the asking, and SAS, for one, passes around a tray from which a passenger may take as much...