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...sure, there are vast physical and psychic differences between Manhattan and some of the leafy streets of its sister borough of Queens, and between Queens and Scarsdale, and between Scarsdale and Levittown, and between all of them and Duluth, Minn. But they are all "urban," and they must all contend with traffic jams, parking, pollution, shortages of hospitals, parks, police and even water, usually with inadequate schools and spreading slums, and always with taxes and America's weird tangle of municipal jurisdictions...
Some Southern Negroes even contend that whites in certain Black Belt counties are consciously plotting to starve Negroes into Northern exile...
...Italian? In an era of Catholic collegiality, when national hierarchical organizations are taking on increased responsibility, theologians have suggested that the office of apostolic delegate is something of an anachronism. Some also contend that the apostolic delegates-most of whom are Italian- might be more effective if they were nationals of the countries to which they are posted. Top Vatican officials do not agree that the office is outdated. Argues one: "There is no way in the world in which the Pope could supervise the work of hundreds of separate episcopacies without having his man on the scene. He needs...
Though vital to the budget balance required by the West German constitution, tax increases and cuts in welfare spending would normally be no way to fight a recession. Nor were they easy for Kiesinger, for he has had to contend with a delicate balance in his coalition government. The Social Democratic members of his Cabinet, and some of his own Christian Democrats as well, bitterly opposed the tax increases and welfare cuts. But some thing had to be done about government spending. Over the years, when rapid economic growth promised to produce enough cash to meet almost any demand...
...book on General Billy Mitchell has revived the story of his courtmartial, conviction and suspension from service. Mitchell has been proven right, but the only officer at the trial to vote for his acquittal was Douglas MacArthur, who some years later would have his own Harry S. Creon to contend with. The Nuremberg War Crimes trial raised the issue again. And in the past few weeks the headlines have been full of the trial and conviction of Muhammad Ali and Captain Howard B. Levy--both of whom refused to compromise with conscience...