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...University Deans have criticized a bill in the Massachusetts legislature which would compel State high schools to teach the virtues of free enterprise and the evils of communism...
...months ago, as part of his crusade against smog, Abe Ribicoff, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, served the auto industry with a blunt ultimatum: unless the auto manufacturers agreed to install blow-by* anti-pollution devices on all 1964 models voluntarily, the Administration would ask Congress to compel them to do so. Last week the automakers went Ribicoff one better, decided to make blow-by devices standard equipment on all their 1963 cars and light trucks...
Less than two years ago, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller submitted a bill that would compel homeowners to build their own fallout shelters; he got bluntly turned down by his G.O.P.-dominated legislature. But times change -and last week, less than six hours after convening for a special, two-day session, the state legislature overwhelmingly approved a program that will help provide shelters for the 4,100,000 persons connected with New York's schools, colleges and institutions. New York thereby took on the largest civil defense effort of any state in the nation...
...ever ascertain "clear compulsion" for either choice in a situation with the ramifications of atmospheric testing. Substantial right-wing pressure, though, may well compel Kennedy to resume tests. Such a development would be tragic, for the arguments of the politicians are as scientifically shallow as they are morally infantile. Vigilant Mr. Rockefeller has been exceedingly irresponsible...
...person who submits to such resignations will ask himself: "Do not the sterile efforts of so many philosophers prove that their search is in vain; that either it is meaningless, or else it is impossible to reach a solution that can compel universal recognition...