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...getting decent jobs once they graduate. It is the more urgent problem of trying to build the economy that prevents the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from building new educational facilities. Mrs. Gandhi has taken a conciliatory attitude toward the students-which many Indians feel will only breed new outbreaks of violence...
...Shakespeare blamed rust's presence on a "foul fiend" named Flibbertigibbet. Whatever its origin, the fungus is still thriving; its red, yellow and orange splotches on stems and leaves cause a grain-crop loss of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And every time that modern agronomists breed a resistant grain, within a decade or so a new and devastating rust develops through natural mutation...
...Breed." Though he had handily won renomination to a third term only three weeks earlier, Weltner explained at an Atlanta press conference that he was withdrawing from his campaign for re-election because he could not honor the loyalty oath that requires all Georgia Democratic candidates to support the state party ticket. Declared Weltner: "Today the one man in our state who exists as the very symbol of violence and oppression is the Democratic nominee for the highest office in Georgia. His entire public career is directly contrary to my deepest convictions and beliefs. And while I cannot violate...
Weltner, a handsome, fiercely independent lawyer of distinguished Southern lineage (his great-grandfather, Gen eral Thomas R. R. Cobb, wrote the Confederate constitution and was killed at Fredericksburg), personified "the new breed" of Southern Congressman -and was proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
...Figures. The biggest proponents of television are the new breed of campaign management firms. For a fat fee -into six figures for a major statewide contest-the freelance image polishers will take over as much of the administrative work and thinking as the candidate will allow and pay for. They will handle his advertising, fund raising, research, direct mailings, speechwriting, and just about everything else short of representing his district after election. These backroom brains seldom meet the people, rely instead on elaborate research and computers to determine what the voters want to hear...