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...presented to an approving five-man military junta a 22-page document spelling out an agreement designed to give each party an equal share in political power for the next twelve years. The military, in turn, promised that it will step out next year. Next step: a plebiscite to confirm the agreement...
After trying some newspaper-readership statistics on his slide rule, Pollster George Gallup promises for fall publication "the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the American press." For the most part, Gallup's conclusions from interviews with 7,000 readers will only confirm what most editors know about most readers: people like to read about people. But one undeveloped area of reader interest charted in the study is a little-known land to the majority of newsrooms. News of U.S. business, Pollster Gallup's findings suggest, not only deserves more space and prominence than it gets in most...
...process, freedom of speech, jury trial, freedom of the press, fair trial and freedom of worship-have for us all a ringing appeal. And we have a serene confidence that all mankind, when allowed the choice, will claim these invaluable rights. Just yesterday, for example, we observed the Hungarians confirm our faith in the insatiable appetite of all people for freedom-an urge that will brook impossible odds for its satisfaction, proving to the entire world that life without freedom becomes unbearable ... In many parts of this planet men of every color and background are awakening to the immeasurable worth...
...years that there are differences between the metabolism of schizophrenics and that of normal people, and some of these elusive differences show up in the blood. The trouble has been that when one group of researchers has reported a detectable difference, other groups have not been able to confirm...
...Vatican recognition of Poland's right to the former German provinces that were incorporated in Poland after World War II. Every Pole-Communist or Catholic-favors permanent recognition by the Vatican in terms of church administration for three new dioceses in the west, which would be a powerful confirmation of Poland's right to the area; Wyszynski himself enhanced his prestige immeasurably at home when he broke the Vatican rules to confirm the appointments of vicars made by the Communist government while he was imprisoned. Vatican policy was not to make any such appointments until a peace treaty...