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...ears ringing with the same sharp outcries from some liberal Republicans, Dirksen at week's end agreed to try to modify some of his amendments. The fact remained that, to get the support needed to pass the bill, the liberal ma jority will in all likelihood be forced to accept many of Dirksen's proposals. If they persist in an all-or-nothing attitude, they may yet turn a running tide of victory to ironic defeat...
...Goulart insists that the ruling classes are wantonly distorting his "democratic" reforms. Indeed, he is no Communist. But he has relied so heavily on Communists and the far left that, willy-nilly, he is approaching the point of no return. So far he has been able to discount any likelihood of a coup by Brazil's studiously constitution-minded armed forces. But even the military has given him fair warning. Last month 73 retired "pajama generals," with 2,800 years of service among them, issued a manifesto labeling Goulart a "flagrant transgressor of the law," charged that under...
This week the U.A.W.'s convention at Atlantic City will debate how much to ask for, and the likelihood is that the union will demand a package increase of about 5%, much more than the rough 3.2% guideline that the Administration suggested in January as reasonable and noninflationary. One of the Administration's greatest concerns now is that other labor chiefs will demand at least as much as Reuther. That-combined with a big increase in purchasing power, a big federal deficit and a continuing policy of easy money-could bring on inflation...
...political theory that runs through Hamilton's 50-odd contributions is the same that carried him through his mature life." At New York's ratification con vention, it was Hamilton's charming, persuasive leadership that guided a pro-constitutional minority (19 of 46 delegates) "from the likelihood of defeat through the near certainty of stalemate to the actuality of victory...
...doubted, however, that the death penalty imposed on Ruby would contribute to the likelihood of a reversal, as some observers have suggested. Nevertheless, both he and Sutherland suggested that in a capital case the court does "inspect the evidence more closely...