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...bring the capitalist and the manager and the worker and the Government to one table to share in the fruits of all our dreams and all of our work," he says. He seeks not to create issues, but to smooth them over. He hopes, for example, to blunt the G.O.P.'s "law-and-order" issue by having the FBI investigate the possibility that "outside agitators" moved in to provoke the riots in the North's Negro ghettos. And he is trying to soften the harsh debate over foreign policy-particularly over the mess in Viet Nam -by creating...
...State Charles Carpentier. But last January Carpentier suffered a heart attack; in April he died at age 67. Into the race swept State Treasurer William Scott, 37, a strong Goldwater supporter, who accused Percy of everything, from being in cahoots with Chicago mobsters to being soft on Communism. To blunt the charge that he was anti-Goldwater. Percy, for his part, publicly pledged that at the G.O.P. National Convention he would vote with the majority of the Illinois delegation-for Barry. On primary day last April, Percy swamped Scott...
...congregation; they liked it because "they owe the money to themselves," and he liked it because many holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken began a $15,500,000 campaign, partly to pay for a new cathedral in San Francisco to replace the one that burned. He had no trouble raising the amount in seven months, with...
...Object: Delay. On Capitol Hill the outcry was immediate and immense. A flood of bills and resolutions dropped into the hoppers. All were designed to blunt the Supreme Court's ruling, and some proposed smothering the ruling altogether by amending the U.S. Constitution to deny the federal courts the right to rule on such matters...
President-elect of the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, Judge Ketcham is a blunt advocate of defense lawyers in juvenile courts. Right now, lawyers represent less than 10% of juvenile delinquents in the country's 75 largest cities, where 69% of juvenile crime is concentrated...