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...Nelson Rockefeller's chances depend primarily on Campaigner Rockefeller himself. Polls show that he is making a dent. The gap between candidates, once 20% in Harriman's favor, has narrowed to a hairline's difference. And among voters who made up their minds in the last fortnight, Rockefeller is the choice 8-2 in rural areas and a remarkable even-Stephen in New York City, where the heaviest Democratic vote must come from...
...himself to shortcomings in French national policy that no one had seriously tackled in years. Items: ¶ Minister of Construction Pierre Sudreau got two months to prepare a program to build rental housing, so that France will no longer be the only major nation that has made no real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister of Justice Michel Debré was charged with the task of reorganizing France's hodgepodge judicial structure. ¶ Ministers Louis Jacquinot, Jean Berthoin and André Malraux were ordered to devise a scheme for financing long-range scientific research. ¶ Minister...
Designed to dent the labor-union corruption and thug rule exposed by Arkansas' John McClellan's labor-management racketeering committee, the Kennedy-Ives bill required unions to 1) hold periodic secret-ballot elections, and 2 ) submit to the Labor Department full reports on their financial and other dealings. Tough-minded John McClellan himself endorsed the bill as a ''first step" that would "give important protection to the rights of workers, of management and the public...
Students at the University, the Presi- dent continued, now have "a deeper understanding of what a church is." He attributed this to the widespread discussion of the past several weeks, a discussion for which he is now "profoundly thankful...
...even heroic efforts by Negro leadership could only dent the Negro crime problem, because essentially it is a white problem. And it will remain a severe problem until Northern whites, private citizens as well as civic officials, recognize that Negro crime is basically a symptom of a failure in integration, and start attacking discrimination in the North with the same fervor they show in arguing for civil rights in the South...