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Quite a few businessmen are in favor of controls but annoyed by bureaucratic confusion in applying them. Both Rawleigh Warner Jr., chairman of Mobil Oil, and John Watlington, president of Winston-Salem's Wachovia Bank, say that the Price Commission has accused their companies of not filing required profit reports, although in fact they did. At the Price Commission, says Warner, "the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing." The quickening upturn in business the last few months has allayed many executives' doubts about Nixon, but others still worry that the domestic economic difficulties...
According to PALC spokesman James L. Winston, a third-year law student, the group will present a statement at the CRR hearings on Monday declaring that it does not view the CRR as a legitimate disciplinary bode. Winston refused to speculate whether the group would attend additional hearings...
...Winston Churchill
...Cannes, France. Churchill made four clandestine trips (two by submarine, two by parachute) into German-occupied France. On his fourth mission, he and his aide, Odette Sansom, were captured by the Gestapo and tortured. They were spared from execution because the Germans believed they were married and related to Winston Churchill (they were neither). Reunited at war's end, they did marry, and their wartime exploits were made the subject of the 1951 movie Odette...
...reference to the local ruffians as "subhuman yokels" and "brutes"--as though the evil they embody couldn't belong to fully human persons. But the facts are otherwise, and situations may arise in which one's only recourse in confronting such persons is to kill them. Kenneth I. Winston...