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Burial of the 1966 civil rights bill in Washington last week was a disappointing defeat for civil libertarians. But beyond that setback there was some consolation. For while congressional desire to ban discrimination in private housing is at present clearly lacking, congressional authority grows clearer and clearer. The legal roadblock has been all but removed by the Supreme Court's recently manifested willingness to let Congress give its own broad constitutional interpretation to the 14th Amendment guarantee that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
...make the repudiation of Taylor clearer, the board also decided on an "adjustment" whereby the company provided $1,689,698 in ready cash from current profits to pay its way out of three Taylor ventures in one stroke. Thus, instead of reporting record profits of $1,473,607 for the first half of 1966, which is what the books showed before the adjustment, the company reported a loss of $216,091. The biggest item was to provide a reserve for Taylor's entire investment of $1,142,902 in acquiring 85% of Holland's West-Friesland Eurotransport...
Since the dyslexic child has faulty visual and auditory perception, Mrs. McGlannan tries to reinforce these senses by stressing touch techniques. Children make human and animal figures out of clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says...
...these are all enigmas. Nor is the situation made clearer by the intimation that one of Stephen's contemporaries, a freelance careerist of the emotions called Charlie, is the hero's Doppelgänger. It is even suggested that the story is Charlie's not Stephen's; thus, although written throughout in the first person, it should actually be in the second. If so, the moral of the story seems to be that a man cannot be trusted to write his own history, and that even his best friend will have trouble with his obituary...
From P. Lorillard Co., the smoke signals came up clearer and cleaner. Two weeks ago, Lorillard announced that it would henceforth ignore the cigarette industry's self-imposed restrictions against advertising claims of low tar and nicotine content. Everyone automatically assumed that Lorillard had broken ranks for the simple reason that it was tired of seeing sales of its longtime low-tar leader, Kent...