Word: congressed
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Nixon was careful to divorce the crime problem from rioting and racial tension. He had dealt with that in an earlier position paper stressing the need for black economic progress (TIME, May 3). Last week his statement on racial accommodation drew praise from an unexpected source-the militant Congress of Racial Equality, which put forward its own plan for Negro selfhelp. Roy Innis, CORE associate national director, said Nixon's speech "opened the eyes of a lot of people" and made him a "contender for the black vote." Until now Nixon has not been particularly popular among Negro leaders...
...Mills walked toward the elevator, the reporters trailing in an expectant pack behind him. "The ceiling," he added, tossing off billions, "has been fixed at $180.1." Thus one of the most important legislative battles of recent years neared its climax. In the process, Lyndon Johnson, once the master of Congress, suffered the most decisive and humiliating rebuff of his presidency from his former colleagues on Capitol Hill...
...good as his word, logging five trips abroad, including visits to the Holy Land, Bombay and New York City. This August he will undertake his longest voyage yet-to Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff's deepest hope is to show the Latin American church, beset by declining prestige and a drastic shortage of priests, that he has not forgotten it. "All the roads...
Died. John Collier, 84, anthropologist and writer, who as Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933-45) fought to secure civil rights for the American Indian; in Taos, N. Mex. In 1934, Collier scored his greatest coup, the Indian Reorganization Act, a "constitution" that he helped push through Congress, gave the earliest Americans home rule and protection from unscrupulous white traders and land grabbers...
...Congress, of course, will not grant a single request...