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...months the call from the White House never came, while Brooke was under increasingly heavy pressure from civil rights groups to speak out. Black militants added to Brooke's woes by dubbing him an "Uncle Tom." Now that Brooke has made the break, his example may well spur other prominent blacks into more vocal opposition...
Review Right. Last summer the Administration proposed a new law which was passed by the House in December. It would spur voter registration in the North by suspending literacy tests nationwide and relaxing residency requirements for presidential elections. But by allowing the 1965 law to expire, the measure would also eliminate the Justice Department's right to review voting laws, forcing it back to the old case-by-case method of implementation and slowing black registration in the South...
...chancellor after Edward Strong was eased out during the Free Speech Movement. Meyerson quickly proved that he could deal with both angry students and upset professors. A year later, he became president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he drew on his planning experience to spur action on the school's proposed move from an obsolete city campus to a new 1,200-acre suburban site, a plan now blocked by a dispute over the hiring of minority construction workers. Meyerson also streamlined Buffalo into eight faculties, each with its own provost and budget. With...
Anne of the Thousand Days appears to have been made for one person: the Queen of England. Though it exhibits its royalty rampant on a field of anguish, the film provides a thoroughly upbeaten ending. Cannons resound as Queen Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Henry VIII hears the signal, puts spur to horse and gallops off "to Mistress Seymour's house!" All the while, the future Virgin Queen placidly wanders the palace gardens, toddling toward history. The monarchical fevers are burning out; and England, booms the sound track, is ready for the high triumphs of Elizabeth Regina...
...Billion Neighborhood. To spur him on, there is the lesson of what is happening in the current fiscal year, when federal spending may well work out to total more than Nixon's hoped-for ceiling of $192.9 billion. The fat $5.8 billion surplus that the Administration once so cheerily anticipated will probably get much skinnier as the economy slows down and tax collections shrink with it. Nixon damned the Democratic-controlled Congress for putting his surplus in peril. "In the very session when the Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, it increased spending by $3 billion more than...