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...jeopardy, Senator Henry Jackson has offered an antibusing amendment that would guarantee "freedom of choice to attend neighborhood schools." The other Democratic contenders have refused to endorse a constitutional ban against busing, but have taken increasingly hostile questioning from audiences for their stand. One Republican Senator noted the growing clamor against busing and predicted massive resistance to it. Said he: "If you keep stoking these fires, there's a serious question whether you can enforce the court orders. We would have a serious problem of civil disobedience...
THIS KIND of distrust is very often associated with the clamor for escalation, just as it was in Korea. The widespread cry "Let the military run its war" is an example of this, reflecting both sharp distrust of government war efforts, and acceptance of escalation as a proper means to attain victory. The very fact that the possible victory here is a victory over Communism strengthens the propensity to favor escalation...
...years, the largely self-regulated stock-trading business has nurtured practices and procedures that have seemed increasingly inadequate to the needs of the growing army of U.S. investors. After the recent recession caused more than a hundred brokerage firms to merge or go under, a clamor arose for tighter Government regulation. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission unbundled a set of proposals that could drastically alter exchange operations and the way that stocks are traded...
America's public schools were founded on the principle that citizens should be taxed fairly to provide an equal educational chance for everyone. Yet angry taxpayers and parents no longer find their rapidly rising school taxes fair-or their children's schools equal. Their clamor is provoking a far-reaching reappraisal of how the U.S. finances its educational system...
...things get really bad, we shall cut back on automotive products, but may actually pick up in telecommunications." The fact that so much of ITT's volume is in telecommunications equipment should be a continuing help. Demand remains strong in both good times and bad, as Europeans clamor for telephones and state-owned operating companies rush to increase the supply. In France next year, Bergerac expects a 36% rise in sales of telecommunications products...