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In two separate and unanimous decisions last week the U.S. Supreme Court dashed organized labor's high hopes for its favorite device to circumvent the right-to-work laws that now forbid union shop contracts in 20 states: the agency shop.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Trouble with the Agency | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

The ugly violence has one common denominator: all the victims were Chinese, that minority of 3,000,000 among Indonesia's 97 million which by hard work and nimble brain has extracted wealth from the overheated, forested archipelago of President Sukarno. The racial bitterness beats even Birmingham, for despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Present & Future | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

It is characteristic of most "liberal" whites, when confronted with a Negro, to assume either that the Negro is white, or that they themselves are Negro. But this attempt to circumvent the racial barrier by pretending that everyone stands on the same side can only increase the real distance between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM A WHITE MAN AT HARVARD | 2/12/1963 | See Source »

There is no such thing as a vacuum in politics or government. If the rights of a sovereign state and local units of government are taken away, they will be replaced by a totalitarian government--a police state. Only our Constitution stands between the people and a dictatorship. If politicians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from Speech by Mississippi Governor Barnett | 2/7/1963 | See Source »

Such efforts to circumvent the court's decision seem to reflect the will of the public. Last week a Gallup poll indicated that 79% of those questioned in a nationwide survey favor the continuation of religious observances in the public schools.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Second Thought.. . | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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