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...ruling by a three-judge panel in Atlanta whose effect was to uphold the Public Accommodations section. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear an appeal from the Atlanta decision. For the time being, however, the Birmingham ruling is a plus for Barry, since it tends to confirm his doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights...
This year's campaign has gotten underway in earnest far earlier than ones in the recent past have as if to confirm the unusual nature of this year's politics. Graham notes the oddity of the 1964 Democratic convention. Sanford Ungar also finds an air of the unnatural at the Republican convention, though produced by circumstances considerably different from those at Atlantic City. Ungar notes the dilemma that Goldwater's nomination poses for liberal Republican candidates and analyzes the various pressures which must shape a politician's decision to support or repudiate the national ticket...
...these indicators proved wrong in 1962, leading economists into a false recession scare. Often, such warning signals also come too late for the Government and businessmen to have a chance to cushion the fall, or perhaps avert it entirely. Figures on industrial production and personal income, for example, only confirm what has already happened...
...written about Harlem to compile a pointed summary that supplemented the correspondents' reports. In addition to all this material, Writer Ronald Kriss read widely in James Baldwin's works and social-agency documents, and late the night before the story went to press was in Harlem to confirm some impressions...
...Please Confirm." A Jesuit priest born of English parents in Le Havre, Roberts once headed an archdiocese -but gave it up. In 1937, while teaching in Liverpool, he was told by a reporter of-his appointment as Archbishop of Bombay. Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the appointment. Thirteen years later, having become convinced that India's principal see ought to be occupied by an Indian, he resigned in favor of Valerian Gracias, and settled down at the Farm Street church in London's Mayfair...