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Kennedy's main issues, the ones he cites in every speech, are education, housing, and unemployment. To contribute to their solution, he favors, with evangelical fervor at times, federal aid to education, federal low-and middle-income housing, and such legislation as the area redevelopment program, accelerated public works, and the manpower retraining act. Of these three primary issues, Kennedy particularly stresses--and speaks most eloquently on--education. His apparent concern for children, and particularly children unfairly handicapped by lack of opportunity, is a prominent feature in all his speeches...
...China would soon explode a nuclear device, hinted that early November might be testing-time. But having nuclear toys to play with will not necessarily toughen the future China. In conversation, Mao as much as admitted his worry that the next Chinese generation may not retain the hard-line fervor of the original revolutionaries. "They must learn to struggle," he says. "They will learn-perhaps...
...Dealer who was born on his father's farm in Clay County, Ala., Hugo Black managed to earn a law degree at the University of Alabama without ever going to college, then became a Birmingham police-court judge and a crack negligence lawyer. In 1926, his Populist fervor persuaded Alabamians to elect him to the U.S. Senate. Aware of his spotty schooling, he spent his first term buried in the Library of Congress reading Aquinas, Aristotle, Herodotus, Locke, Marx, Mill, Montesquieu, Plutarch, Tacitus, Spinoza, Thucydides, Shakespeare, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and all of Thomas Jefferson...
Nonetheless, among U.S. medical men, nonbelievers still outnumber believers in natural-childbirth methods, and many obstetricians tend to deride the evangelical fervor of the naturalists for drugless childbirth. But even doctors who are not advocates of natural childbirth are willing to acknowledge that there is good in what the naturalists preach. Nowadays, fewer mothers are anesthetized in delivery-a practice long scorned by naturalists. There is also a growing trend toward the type of prenatal preparation and exercise that naturalists have been strongly recommending as standard obstetrics for more than three decades...
...late August, however, the movement reasserted itself. Emerging from Mississippi, the Freedom Democratic Party (FDP) rocked the Democratic Convention, engaged the attention of a huge television audience, and reclicted from white liberals the phrases and fervor so quickly forgotten a short month earlier...