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...means of effecting social change: legislative remedy and petition by the governed for the redress of grievances. One may assume, I trust, that these means of change are still real alternatives. And, I assume furthur, that Mr. Russin is not suggesting they are the only alternatives, that simply because Congressmen may not be responsive to the March, that Negroes and their allies ought to go on the March...
BLACK AND WHITE, but no longer read all over, is the latest edition of the U.S. Government's bestselling pamphlet Infant Care. Since 1914, when the first edition appeared, more than 48 million copies of Infant Care have been distributed, many millions of them by Congressmen, who get up to 500 free copies a month and send them to new parents in their districts. This year integration caught up with Infant Care...
...edition of the pamphlet, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, departing from what had been the custom, included illustrations showing Negro parents and babies. Several Southern Congressmen quickly canceled orders for the integrated edition. Explained Georgia's Representative John W. Davis: "I'm just afraid that in view of the current state of high feelings it might rub a few nerves the wrong...
Losing "Third Markets." Partly be cause the U.S. has not been very export-minded until lately, few U.S. companies had even complained to Washington about the differentials. But the Congressional Joint Economic Committee got wind of the matter in May and tipped off Kennedy. The Congressmen -notably the committee's chairman, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas-were shocked to learn that, for example, the freight for U.S. steel pipe and tubing outbound to Europe is $42.40 a ton, while the inbound rate is $22.62. Scotch whisky moves to New York at a shipping cost of 840 a case...
Congressional hearings last week revealed considerable opposition to the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike on the part of Congressmen who fear that it may restrain domestic economic expansion; the Board itself is known to have split over the move. While supporting the increase on the ground that it will affect mostly short-term borrowing, Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, showed his concern about any further rate rises: "Clearly, this is no time for tightening long-term credit...