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...weeks since the Democratic Congress passed the stiffest labor bill in history, the Senate-bred Democratic presidential hopefuls have seldom missed a chance to explain themselves to labor. Last week three of them (all voted for the bill) turned up at the United Automobile Workers annual convention in Atlantic City, but only one walked off with the house...
Military Governor General Ahmad Saleh al-Abdi, who is entrusted with maintaining order, seems to have no well-defined political ideology of his own, but his job has made him a committed antiCommunist. Last week, in the stiffest blow yet at the street-prowling Communist gangs who stir up sporadic violence, Abdi forbade all civilians to carry firearms-even licensed weapons...
...lifelong Floridian, whose love for the South is exceeded only by his dedication to equal justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed down the stiffest sentences possible-considering that the jury had recommended mercy (TIME, June 22): life terms in Raiford State Prison. He was sorry, said Judge Walker, father of two sons, aged 11 and 15, to send any young men off to the penitentiary. But "duty transcends regret, and you are fortunate indeed that the jury recommended mercy." Had it not, death sentences...
...trend in recent years within the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature has threatened to turn the area from a field of concentration to one of domination. The course requirements are already among the stiffest in the College, and with the increasing pressure from the Junior Qualifying examination, students face the alternatives of inordinate cramming for the qualifying exam, or else spending three-fourths of their college career taking courses within their field...
...Majesty's government," said the British Foreign Office in its stiffest note since Suez, "must point out that it would be their duty to prevent any unlawful attempt to interfere with British fishing vessels on the high seas." (An international conference last April failed to agree on a three, six-or twelve-mile limit, leaving it up to what each nation can enforce.) Although Iceland had not yet talked of using gunboats itself, "Her Majesty's government," continued the note, "finds it difficult to believe that the Icelandic government would use force against British fishing vessels in order...