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...Committee's stand is that racial imbalances in the school system is a "neighborhood problem" not under its purview. The NAACP retaliates that the problem exists; that it has harmful affects on Negro children, and that it is the Committee's duty to deal with it. The Association makes it clear, however, that it does not believe the Committee is responsible for the racial imbalances in Boston...
...religion formally for only brief periods (about 30 minutes daily in Catholic elementary schools). But the parochial school does exist primarily for one reason: "To develop the morally intelligent person." And so "the primacy of the spiritual" suffuses all subjects ("Faith is never departmental: all things fall within its purview"). "Christian or Christ-centered culture is the supreme integrating principle...
...keep under purview the adherence of all" Arab neighbors to the amity pledge they gave in last summer's U.N. resolution, Hammarskjold set up in Jordan's capital of Amman a new "U.N. organ," in the person of Under Secretary Pier P. Spinelli of Italy. He in turn would have other watchdogs in Beirut and Damascus -but not in Cairo, where President Nasser insists there is no need...
...existing law undertakes to regulate two distinct types of pressure group activity. First is approaching Congress members in Washington, which comes under the purview of the Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946. This law requires the registration of "legislative representatives" and the publicizing of their expenses and backers. While this Act has not worked perfectly, it probably cannot be changed for the better. Congress is unable to abolish the lobby because the First Amendment guarantees interest groups the right to petition legislators...
...tour of foreign capitals, wrote a book praising Hitler and Mussolini. He was not close enough to the team to be completely trusted, so before war's end he was nudged into retirement; but he was not clean enough to pass the occupation's purview, and was purged (along with 201,815 other Japanese) after he had formed the postwar Liberal Party and was about to become Premier...