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...Argentinan and a Cuban head the Latin American delegation. Hora- cio Godoy, an expert on South America's foreign policy and Professor of Law at the University of La Plata, will contrast his opinions with those of the former secretary of the Cuban Sugar Institute, Henrique Menoca, who was until recently second in command to Che Guevera, the Cuban Finance Minister...
...cio Costa, 58, son of a Brazilian admiral, a lifelong pacifist and the acknowledged father of Brazil's flashy modern architecture, won the contest for a master city plan. While others submitted blueprints and models, Costa sketched on five sheets of paper what one judge, Britain's Sir William Holford, called "a city with solutions, not problems, built in." Says Costa: "The shape of Brasilia was born out of the simple gesture of a man who indicates a place or marks it as his own: two lines crossing at right angles...
...from rational and its followers are distant from altruism. Senate president John E. Powers, now running for mayor of Boston, threw his political savvy against Bill 1030. After all, he reasoned, "We can't possibly compete with heavily endowed and high tuition universities for teachers." The AFL-CIO accused the university of attempting to establish "its own distinctive caste system that sets up discriminatory classification system identifying [teachers] separately and distinctively from everyone else." Finally the Senate Ways and Means Committee delivered the crushing blow by coupling the faculty raise with a general hike for all state employees, a bill...
Beyond the phony figures the AFL-CIO marchers got little satisfaction from either side of the political fence. Labor Secretary James Mitchell said that he was "proud to stand on the record of 64 million jobs in this country as of today" and promised three million more by October. But he also indicated that he had "not been satisfied" with previous Administration action on the problem, a sentiment in which his audience concurred. The Democratic leaders were not much more helpful. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, contented himself and apparently the labor chiefs, with a promise to form another study group...
Walter Reuther, Vice-President of the AFL-CIO, has turned down an invitation to speak at the Medical School. In a letter to Dr. David D. Rutstein, professor of Preventive Medicine, the labor leader ruled out the possibility of his speaking here this year...