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...grew out of a temporary group formed just after the Deadwyler incident. It was called TALO, "Temporary Alliance of Local Organizations," and represented a coalition between extreme nationalists; civil rights groups, militant and moderate; and middle-class businessmen. Its original function was to avert another spree of violence which seemed very possible at the time...
...considers "The Struggle to End Hunger" [Aug. 12] as important a problem as any in our time, I am impressed by the balance and comprehensiveness of your fine Essay. I agree that only by combining expanded U.S. output with agricultural self-help in developing lands can we hope to avert world famine...
President Johnson last week named John T. Dunlop, chairman of the Economics Department and an outspoken critic of the Administration's economic guidelines policy, to a three-man Emergency Board which will try to avert a threatened strike against American Airlines...
...airports, for example--is that when top union officials met with federal mediators the day after the strike began, five local chairmen were with them. But many observers agreed with Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Kennedy Library and a member of the President's board which tried to avert the strike, when he said the local issues could be settled "if there were a will to settle...
Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Kennedy Institute and a member of the three-man Presidential board which tried to avert the strike that has paralyzed five major airlines, called on the machinists, Saturday, to end their walk...