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Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, 76, is a slight (5 ft. 5 in.), self-effacing prelate who as Archbishop of Baltimore has been a tenacious fighter for liberal causes. Named to the diocese in 1961, Shehan issued, a year later, a blunt pastoral letter demanding the end of racial discrimination in all phases of Catholic life. He lent personal weight to his words by joining Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. When Pope Paul VI named him cardinal in 1965, Shehan viewed the honor as a papal endorsement of "racial justice." But he was not always so heartily endorsed...
...nationwide attitude-measurement questionnaire given last fall to fourth-and fifth-graders by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare asked students a blunt question about their parents: "How do you think your parents feel about black and white students going to the same school together?" And about their schoolmates: "Do you think black students in this school cause more trouble than other kinds of students?" About their teachers: "Do you think white teachers in this school are unfair to students who are not white?" The questionnaire was designed to measure racial attitudes, primarily in urban schools...
...same sentiment that underlies what has been happening on Capitol Hill. Some Senators and Congressmen still try to live in a fanciful world, where hard choices can be fudged, where blunt assessments can be avoided. In his call for Nixon's resignation, Senator Buckley used language skillfully to create the image of a President innocent of criminal acts, a man essentially victimized by others. But Buckley's whole performance in the cavernous Senate Caucus Room spoke something quite the opposite, something that members of Congress until now have only dared mutter among themselves. It is the horror...
Within a few hours, the news of Kissinger's blunt criticism of America's allies was all over Washington-and, worse, all over Europe. Foreign news agencies and embassies scurried to obtain accurate texts. By the time that the State Department issued a somewhat laundered transcript of the talk, the damage had been done. Europe was stunned. Said French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who later in the week accompanied President Georges Pompidou on a state visit to the Soviet Union: "Kissinger does not understand Europe." In Bonn, a ranking German official complained: "Now we have a cold...
Oddly, the sudden prosperity has caused little jubilation among American Motors executives. They are preoccupied by an unfamiliar problem; how to produce as many cars as the public wants. "Steel is tight, chemicals are tight, fabricated parts are extremely tight," complains William V. Luneburg, AMC's blunt-spoken president, who sometimes badgers suppliers personally for quick deliveries. "When you have the opportunity in your grasp and you cannot make it materialize, it is a bit frustrating." Still, he concedes, "the wheel of fortune is turning right at the moment...