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Perhaps more original are Antoine's reflections on love, modern-style. In France, there is a movement afoot to repeal a 1920 statute prohibiting contraceptives for women. While the law itself has never been much of an inhibiting factor in France, it does give Antoine and the kids something to protest about. He sings an anguished ballad about an impoverished young wife who winds up killing her nine children and herself. He makes the same point in a lighter strain in Antoine's Lucubrations, his hottest-selling record...
...Emergency Planning chief. During an earlier term as Governor, Ellington backed Johnson for President at the 1960 Democratic Convention, and the two have often exchanged visits and swapped breeding bulls. In his political views, however, Hooker is closer to Johnson, supports medicare, a Tennessee state minimum wage law and repeal of 14(b)-none of which especially appeal to Ellington. Hooker last week accepted the Tennessee co-chairmanship of the National Lawyers Committee for the President, a group organized to act as liaison between the legal profession and the White House...
Sitting on Situs. Nonetheless, Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from...
...which have been notoriously reluctant to admit Negroes. In addition, though the bill has more than enough votes for passage, House Democrats have decided to leave it in committee until the Senate acts. Reason: Democrats from conservative districts feel that they lost votes unnecessarily by supporting the 14 (b) repeal bill only to have the Senate filibuster it to death...
...also noted that it was "very difficult" to engender support for repeal of an oath "that so many consider innocent...