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...grounds. First, they claim that people of this age are too easily influenced by their emotions, and are thus ready prey to political demagoguery. Rationality, however, does not necessarily come with age. Subjective, irrational considerations influence the white-collar worker of 30 as surely as they affect the high-school student of 18. The housewife with a son in Korea and the farmer who "distrusts foreigners" are easy targets for slick political oratory. If the voting age were lowered, high schools would place an even greater emphasis on civics and American history than they do now, to prepare their students...
While Belgian Catholics still smarted under defeat, Catholics in the neighboring Netherlands celebrated their restoration as the nation's biggest party. In nationwide elections for provincial councils (which do not directly affect the national government), the Catholic People's Party polled 31.5% of the vote, inching past their coalition partners in the national government, the Socialists, who gained slightly themselves, to poll 29.4%. Chief losers: the Communists, who polled only 284,284 votes, a decline...
Emphasizing that the changes will only affect Lamont and not the other branches of the University Library, Philip J. McNiff, director of Lamont, said that the new hours are being tried in response to "requests and demands by undergraduates that the library close later...
...issue is not whether the new young voters will affect relative party strength--most observers agree they will not--but whether 18, 19 and 20-year-old people are mature enough to cast their ballots wisely...
...Attorney General Brownell in the case of Harry Dexter White and furthered by Secretary of State Dulles in his initial announcement of the "New Look" defense policy. When the president must say, as he did about Nixon's stand on Indo-China, that he has "no comment," the affect can only be weakening...