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...conference had to be postponed because of the flaring civil war in the Dominican Republic. Now at last 800 delegates from 19 nations converged on Rio's ancient Hotel Gloria for the Second Special Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States. The object was to assess the role of the 17-year-old OAS in a rapidly changing hemisphere. And that was something that badly needed doing. "There are several Pandora's boxes here," said an OAS official, "any one of which contains vast numbers of insects...
What Pearson and so many others failed to assess properly was Canada's weariness over so many elections, and its growing impatience with the two aging contenders-Pearson, 68, and Diefenbaker, 70-who have now faced each other four times in a row. As one observer put it: "Two dreary old men nobody wants-two character actors still making farewell tours in the sticks long after the public has retired them...
Over the stricken city, the jet made a slow, 1,500-ft.-high pass so that its passengers could assess the full extent of the disaster. At the airport, the President spoke in drizzling rain to a welcoming committee led by Mayor Victor H. Schiro and Governor John McKeithen. Pledging the full help of the Federal Government ("Human suffering and physical damage are measureless"), he set off on his tour...
Panel members eagerly heeded the admonition of Chairman Gardner that they were there "not to be lectured at but to be heard." The topic that stirred the conference's loudest and sharpest clash was the notion that federal grants may be followed by federal testing to assess educational results. Warned Commissioner Keppel: "The nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress will want to know-and have every right to know-whether that investment is paying off." John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative...
...prominent Wall Street personality in his own right. In addition, the SEC seeks to have Lamont "make restitution" to the shareholders from whom Morgan Guaranty bought its stock-that is, pay them what they would have earned had they held on longer. A U.S. district court would assess the actual amount...