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No longer will Tudor the Valiant, Tudor the Brave, defend the goal of his teammates of the Bucharest football “Rapids.” Tudor has been expelled from the team, and from all Rumanian sports, for behavior “unbecoming to a proletarian.” He has been convicted both of “monkeyshines” and of “showing off.” Wonder what the Rumanians would make of our own Cassius (I’m the King) Marcellus (Who’s the Greatest?) Clay?

In Bal Harbour last week Mr. Edward Ball (management) , Mr. George Leighty (labor) and Mr. James J. Reynolds (Dept, of Labor) were in conference. Mr. Ball has been running his railway, the Florida East Coast, for over a year without benefit of Mr. Leighty’s unions, and doing so well at it that, but for the attitude of Mr. Reynolds and other government officials like him, he might justly be said to have won the strike. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Ball’s successful non-union operation has demonstrated for all to see the waste and redundancy of union work rules. So the government’s attitude is clear. Not one word about the more than two hundred acts of violence and sabotage committed in the past year against FEC personnel and property—acts whose perpetrators still remain officially unknown. Instead, Mr. Reynolds will recommend that the FEC’s spur down to Cape Kennedy (Canaveral), where construction workers are striking out of deference to Mr. Leighty’s pickets, be shut down, and the business transferred elsewhere. Mr. Ball, Mr. Reynolds summed up judiciously, is guilty of “petulant adherence to a philosophy that has no place in this century.” Meanwhile the bombings, with only the most up-to-date explosives, continue.

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No longer will Tudor the Valiant, Tudor the Brave, defend the goal of his teammates of the Bucharest football “Rapids.” Tudor has been expelled from the team, and from all Rumanian sports, for behavior “unbecoming to a proletarian.” He has been convicted both of “monkeyshines” and of “showing off.” Wonder what the Rumanians would make of our own Cassius (I’m the King) Marcellus (Who’s the Greatest?) Clay?

In Bal Harbour last week Mr. Edward Ball (management) , Mr. George Leighty (labor) and Mr. James J. Reynolds (Dept, of Labor) were in conference. Mr. Ball has been running his railway, the Florida East Coast, for over a year without benefit of Mr. Leighty’s unions, and doing so well at it that, but for the attitude of Mr. Reynolds and other government officials like him, he might justly be said to have won the strike. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Ball’s successful non-union operation has demonstrated for all to see the waste and redundancy of union work rules. So the government’s attitude is clear. Not one word about the more than two hundred acts of violence and sabotage committed in the past year against FEC personnel and property—acts whose perpetrators still remain officially unknown. Instead, Mr. Reynolds will recommend that the FEC’s spur down to Cape Kennedy (Canaveral), where construction workers are striking out of deference to Mr. Leighty’s pickets, be shut down, and the business transferred elsewhere. Mr. Ball, Mr. Reynolds summed up judiciously, is guilty of “petulant adherence to a philosophy that has no place in this century.” Meanwhile the bombings, with only the most up-to-date explosives, continue.