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...newly appointed United Nations Ambassador George Ball warned in a tough speech that it would be "a mistake to expect that anything can be gained by unilateral concessions, or that a show of weakness will make a negotiation go more swiftly, or even go at all." Addressing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ball declared: "I find it both stupid and unattractive when a handful of our countrymen, who have read little history or have not understood what they have read, engage in public self-flagellation, declaring in sanctimonious tones that American policy is thoroughly in the wrong and that...
Evangelist. Back in Washington he made time with the representatives of the National Federation of Italian-American Organizations (Paesano Frank Sinatra is also a Humphrey booster) and got long and loud applause from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce group of 1,200. He criticized "unbelievably high deficits" in the federal budget, charged that the "present welfare system all too often fails both the test of compassion and the test of efficiency." The War on Poverty is not the Office of Economic Opportunity, he said. "The War on Poverty...
...roof." He reasons that he has supervised the construction of Arizona's basic road, water and power facilities through federal projects. Thus the state can do without the seniority that made him president pro tempore of the Senate, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and one of the upper chamber's most influential...
...Springfield (pop. 170,000), the loss of 2,400 jobs and $27 million in annual payrolls and other expenditures from the city's third largest industry could have been catastrophic. "The whole economy of Springfield," says Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Paul J. Greeley, "was based on George Washington's decision to build an armory here...
...there is an all-important difference between student advice and student control. If students could dictate the hiring and firing of professors, they would tend to select those with whom they agree-and fall into an echo chamber. Latin American students have considerable control over many universities, and the consequence is chaos and inferior education. A university is not a democracy and cannot become one without degenerating into anarchy. At a conference on "Students and Society" at California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions last year, the president of the student body of St. Louis' Washington...