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...small but fanatic lunatic fringe of Puerto Rico's Nationalist movement, which agitates for violent revolt to win independence for the tiny U.S. island commonwealth. A few weeks ago, Congressman Powell roused their anger by speeches in Puerto Rico favoring statehood for the island, and by advocating the wider use of English in Puerto Rican public schools, which are supported in part by U.S. funds and are taught in Spanish. The day before the rock attack, about a hundred nationalists picketed Powell's house with signs saying "Go Home Adam...
...LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE: I feel how much the exploration of the earth in itself fails to bring any light or point out any solution to the most fundamental questions. And I know, too, that the wider the problem seems to grow be fore my eyes, the more clearly I see that its solution can only be sought in a 'faith' beyond all experience...
...institutions serve a wider range of purpose in American society than in any corresponding technological society. But "the willingness to take on all manner of tasks has kept the universities from becoming exclusively primarily intellectual in ," and the universities sacrifice their possibility educational institutions of in order to be public of another kind...
Then the House, by an even wider margin (including Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck and his lieutenants), passed the bill designed to strengthen the U.S. for the economic challenges of the years to come...
...first, old-line department stores jeered at the discounters. They pointed out that the discounters' stores were messy, that the goods they sold were often distress merchandise, and that the clerks were few and were usually order takers who did not know their stock. Department stores offered credit, wider selection, home delivery and more amenities. All true; but many department stores, and their help, had become indifferent in service and set in their ways. Besides, it turned out, people would put up with a lot if the price was right...