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...American Committee for Information on Brazil. The document was endorsed by 34 concerned citizens, including Black Leader Ralph Abernathy and John Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary. According to the dossier, Brazil's military regime has resorted to a whole catalogue of horrors in its effort to root out dissidents...
...against graceful footwear started slowly several years ago. Miniskirts get much of the blame: so much leg exposure, it was decided, required a heavy shoe. Accordingly rounded toes were first blunted slightly, next squared off enough to boot field goals. Heels grew plump, then squatted as if to take root. Still, all was not lost: vamps stayed high-cut and flattering, and flimsy straps crossed ankles and insteps without looking like tourniquets. But then came clogs. Wooden-soled and styled like gravy boats, the Swedish imports and U.S. copies did a sellout business last year. After sport shoes went clumpy...
Meany was just a bit overcritical. The commission does lack the power to accomplish much over the short term in reducing the pressures that lift prices. But it really aims at long-range solutions to a problem that is close to the root of inflation. The output per man-hour of the U.S. labor force has been sagging for two years; during the first quarter of this year, productivity actually fell at an annual rate of 0.6%. With wages and fringe benefits climbing by 7.7% an hour, labor costs per unit of output rose at an annual rate...
...President said that segregation of pupils must be eliminated root and branch, and that it must be done at once. School desegregation is a racial problem. It's raw racial prejudice, and there's no other name...
...cast iron Greek columns that are displayed in the exhibit, America's real values began to take root insidiously. Corporate pragmatism was about to usurp the throne...