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What I missed in your otherwise excellent article was the awakened concern of the churches to do a better job of sex education to help prevent the tragedies of meaningless or distorted...
...brought $398.5 million in U.S. aid at a tight moment. Dantas lasted less than six months before Goulart fired him. To quiet the outcries of the fiscal community, Goulart put in Carvalho Pinto, a hardheaded conservative. For a time Pinto was able to stop the endless cranking out of meaningless new currency; he also fought against featherbedded government payrolls, called on workers and management to hold down wages and prices. At first Goulart praised his actions. But before long it was politics as usual...
Washington termed Sihanouk's conditions "totally unacceptable." In fact, Sihanouk is probably only taunting the U.S. out of fear of the Red Chinese and wants to avoid an overt diplomatic break. Sihanouk is still anxious for a Geneva Conference to guarantee Cambodian neutrality, but such a conference is meaningless without U.S. participation. As Sihanouk himself said last week after closing Cambodia's embassy in London, "It appears necessary, without a diplomatic break, to put our relations in slumber...
...nation remembers long enough to force through a strong bill, it could forget in time to make the Negro's legal victory hollow and meaningless. Or John F. Kennedy may be able to secure in death a far greater victory for civil rights than he could have in life...
...proposals designed to counter the effects of automation: a reduction of the work week to 35 hours and an increased hourly wage. In addition, his speech contained an implicit warning to union leaders that unless they fought every attempt to install new equipment, even these two proposals would become meaningless. Meany's stand, with which the other leaders present agreed, reflects labor's growing resistance to automation. Two years ago, when New York's local Electrical Workers Union under the leadership of Harry Van Arsdale fought for and won a 25-hour week, most other labor officials opposed the approach...