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...income tax rolls to the strict control of highway billboards-"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50; when a man throws a billboard across a view, he is liable to be richly rewarded"-and at least a moratorium on capital punishment. Declared the determined Brown: "I intend to invite disagreement, not for its own sake, but for the health of our commonwealth. I am concerned not about personal prestige but about public progress...
...young often do not regard their parents' conception of the world as even worth rebuffing. Instead, youth culture provides a moratorium in "growing up" to be like one's parents. It includes both the hedonism of beer-and-twisting at Fort Lauderdale and the smugness of those who hit 800 on the college board exam. It respects love, decency, tolerance. It leads to the "privatism" of early marriage and big families as a substitute for big careers. Perhaps it also leads to the Peace Corps-in one sense, the flower of youth culture -but certainly it does...
...Hansen set up a twelve-man citizens' committee to investigate the causes-and possible cures-for such rioting. But Monsignor John S. Spence, director of education for the archdiocese of Washington, threw up his hands. Noting that "brutal lawlessness" had occurred on Thanksgiving Day, he declared a moratorium on championship football and basketball games between Catholic and public high schools. Washington Correspondent Booker probably had the wisest words of all to say. Wrote he to the newspapers: "Negro leadership in Washington has a responsibility to tackle this problem of rowdyism and juvenile delinquency, not by excuses or statements...
...Communist Chinese invasion of Korea was "aggression." but the West was also "not blameless"; the crushing of the Hungarian rebellion was unfortunate, but all the facts were not clear; when the Soviet Union broke the nuclear test moratorium last year, Nehru deplored "all nuclear tests...
...somehow, our excess nuclear armament has failed to promote stability in world politics. The Soviet Union called off the moratorium on nuclear testing last year, and reversed the hopeful downward trend in its military expenditures. When disarmament talks resumed at Geneva this year, the Russians proved to be more than ever obsessively concerned with their geographical security aid resistant to early inspection...