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...confronted with two simultaneous crises, the Hungarian Revolution and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez. Ike did nothing to stop the Russians in Hungary?there was almost nothing he could do?but he put a fast brake on the European allies. In both instances, his judgment was probably correct. Suez might have been avoided by more astute American diplomacy, however, and the Eisenhower Administration did little thereafter to ease the Arab-Israeli confrontation that even now seriously threatens world stability...
...opening-day crowd of 4,000 at the conference when he charged that "hypocrisy-not unbelief-is really the major religious problem of our time." He suggested that the Vatican might well establish a secretariat on hypocrisy to deal with Catholics who attend Mass and "even give the correct answers" but who "do not really have a living belief which motivates their life." Against such believers, asked Cox, "how can we really use the label 'unbeliever' for people whose search for the transcendent is somehow more serious and many times more ardent? They may think of themselves...
Disappointingly, the Nixon Administration has so far indicated only that it will back tighter restrictions on con glomerate mergers, part-time farmers and foundations. If Congress cannot agree on a basic way to correct today's inequities, it may unfortunately choose a halfway approach suggested by Stanley Surrey. He would require all earn ers to pay at least a minimum tax at rates approximately one-half of normal, thus putting a ceiling on the benefits of tax preferences. In return, no person would have to pay more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials...
...three years, Yale Law Professor Steven Duke has been working to correct what he calls "one of the most inexcusable, grotesque perversions of justice in the history of the federal criminal process." Without any compensation, Duke has devoted as many as 80 hours a week trying to reverse the narcotics conviction of a Connecticut hairdresser named James Miller. In 1964 Attorney General Robert Kennedy called Miller one of the main figures in the nation's largest narcotics smuggling ring, but Duke is convinced that Miller was the victim of a grievous error on the part of the Government...
Amid the uncertainties of an ebullient springtime economy, businessmen can only hope that McCracken's vision is correct...