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...area in the U.S. has a greater potential power shortage than the Pacific Northwest. By 1960, even with the dams now abuilding, the area will be short some 2,000,000 kw., or 25% of estimated needs. President Eisenhower thinks that the gap should be filled largely by local power groups, in partnership with the Federal Government when necessary. Last week virtually all the major power companies in the Northwest, both public and private, lined up in two separate groups to fulfill their side of the partnership...
...Rossi, assistant professor of Sociology, doesn't think there is "terribly much difference in attitudes of political responsibility between those who are 18-20 and those who are 21-25." He notes that the national peak reading period is at the high school level. "There is now a gap of three to four years before a person is involved in making political decisions. By lowering the voting age to 18, we would provide a type of continuity in taking on adult responsibility...
...world economic policy to support its political objectives? This question was crystallized last week by President Eisenhower's foreign-trade message to Congress. If the program he recommended goes through Congress, the U.S. will have made a belated start toward a foreign economic policy. If not, a major gap in U.S. foreign policy will become more conspicuous than ever...
Everyone loved Rhoda Penmark. She was a charming child of eight, neat, precise, with delightful manners. Her brown bangs and braids, her dimple and the cute gap between her front teeth made her a favorite of all the neighbors. She could devastate her parents by simply tossing her head charmingly and asking: "What will you give me, if I give you a basket of kisses?" The loving reply always was: "I'll give you a basket of hugs...
...Administration's recommendations, however, can fill a conspicuous gap in this country's present security program. This is a bill that would permit the Government to compel testimony of those who invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by granting them immunity from prosecution. For it is just this silence barrier that has given publicity-hungry investigators so many headlines in the past. Time after time, persons who have not testified for fear of self-incrimination have actually had nothing to hide, yet their actions have blown the subversives issue up to gigantic proportions. An immunity bill would clear...