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...camps to remove youths from the city during the summer. They have established acting groups and informal classes to show that energies can be re-channeled in learning or in working together. In Spanish Harlem, the American Friends Service Committee has persuaded a large group of gang leaders to abolish their organizations and to set up a Youth Council where they discuss their mutual problems...
...drink are all that remain for the farmers. The Kennedy program offers them only a streamlined version of the Democratic price support program which has been in effect since the war years. Although the Nixon program sets forth a definite plan to diminish surpluses, it also threatens literally to "abolish the farmers...
...used to sitting quietly in parliamentary bodies where everyone may speak freely in turn. As the week began, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. emboldened by the Assembly's 70-0 vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed their attempts to subvert the Congo in defiance of U.N. resolutions, Hammarskjold took up their challenge. Said he: "I would rather see the office...
...Committee stands in direct violation of the First Amendment," Frank Wilkenson, field representative of the national committee to abolish the Un-American Activities group, told a group of Harvard, Radcliffe, and Brandeis students. He urged that the students demonstrate by petition their disfavor with the "witch hunting" and "unconstitutional tactics" of the House body...
...first recommendations. Some were downright iconoclastic. The commission wants to change an 1872 law requiring instruction in "manners and morals," eliminate time-consuming ceremonies such as Susan B. Anthony Day (Feb. 15) and Conservation, Bird and Arbor Day (March 7). To get down to business, it wants to abolish required physical and driver education along with automatic promotion. And it demands that two-thirds of class time in elementary schools be spent on basic subjects, not just half the time...