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...President and the Prime Minister had much to talk about. President Johnson hoped to help strengthen India so that it can take its place along with Japan as a bulwark against Chinese Communist expansion in Asia. In the talks, he would gently insist that India must take steps to control its population growth, revamp its outmoded agricultural methods, and find some modus vivendi with Pakistan so that the two bitter foes do not expend their economic resources arming against each other...
...anarchy of far-off cities such as Calcutta, Hong Kong, Rio or Tokyo, the worst areas of urban America have in varying degrees almost every ill to which the industrial society has fallen heir: unemployment, disease, crime, drug addiction, poor education, family disintegration-and slums. The middle class, the bulwark of good government in any community, continues as a result to migrate to the suburbs, helping to create the problem of proliferating racial ghettos. Almost every major U.S. city must fight advancing physical decay and increasing squalor, particularly for Negro populations, which within 15 years may outnumber whites...
...five-day hearings on Viet Nam fell short of that ideal, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may nonetheless have served well to quicken public interest in the conflict and-though certainly not by intent-to bulwark the Administration's case that it is a necessary...
...measure of the council's achievements. The essentials of Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march - or at least a people which is packing its bags for a pilgrimage...
...third leading ground gainer in the N.F.L. Tucker Frederickson, a 220-lb. fullback from Auburn, is the man who makes the New York Giants go, and Bob ("Bullet") Hayes represents the only real threat in the Dallas Cowboys' offense. Sayers' teammate Dick Butkus is the main bulwark in a brutal Chicago Bears defense that has allowed just 73 points in its last five games. But Willard, Hayes, Frederickson and Butkus are believable, at least...