Word: problems
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This is a problem which has been attacked with vigor and courage on a state level by the progressive administrations of many individual states, notably New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oregon, and a handful of other states. While progress has been made, the reluctance of other states to follow suit, and the inability of these leading states to create truly effective interstate agreements on such vital issues as adequate minimum wages, housing, health safeguards, transportation, child care and education has made federal action essential...
...took a field trip in Stockton, Calif, and witnessed the farm worker problem described in your Aug. 8 issue...
...Government." Echoing a Southern threat, he predicted that "millions of Democrats will vote for our ticket this year, not because they are deserting their party but because their party deserted their principles." Only once were his remarks met with silence. Bringing up civil rights, Nixon called it a national problem, said simply, "You know my convictions on that issue...
Kennedy made no mention of civil rights. But he did delve into another problem that is troubling Democrats, i.e., the reluctance with which Virginia and some other Southern states meet the Kennedy embrace. "You began the Democratic Party," he said. "And I cannot believe that in the most dangerous times of our country's history Virginia is going to say, 'we will not join up again.'" Unfortunately for Kennedy, the lecture was largely a waste of time. The key man in deciding the state's vote, wily old Senator Harry Flood Byrd, had not even bothered...
...know this? Have I not myself been chased through life by the hound of copulation?" Now he advises Bowles: "Go to her, if you must. You are a good man. There is nothing worse than self-deception in religion." Author Michelfelder is too lugubrious a writer to give the problem much dramatic force. But the book has some effective moments of rectory conversation, and earnestly pleads that human love is a work of God as surely as is the priestly vocation...