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...Ward, a Dubuque, Iowa, surgeon, knew full well that his testimony would not "stay in the slightest degree the hand of the Senate in the approval of this bill." But the prospect of imminent congressional approval of the Administration's $6 billion-a-year medicare bill did not deter Ward from uttering some last words about his organization's opposition to the measure. Last week, before the Senate Finance Committee, he did just that, without rancor but with deep feeling...
...establish the confidence of minority groups in the police is through the establishment of independent boards that would study civilian complaints against the police and recommend remedies and punishments to police commissioners. They insist that such boards would not interfere with normal police work, but would only deter bullies in uniform from using undue muscle. The end result, they say, would be an improved climate of community trust...
...derision with which Mrs. Hicks last week greeted the report of the state Advisory Committee on Racial Imbalance and Education came as no surprise. The eminence of the men who prepared the Report--among others Cardinal Cushing, former Attorney-General Edward McCormack, and four college Presidents--did not deter Mrs. Hicks. Neither did the appended sixty pages of research papers, which described the educational harm done to both Negro and white children by racial imbalance. Nor was the majority of the School Committee impressed by the raw statistics--the student bodies of 29 Boston schools are more than 75% Negro...
...neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy. In Montgomery we discovered another reason for being present. Justice Department men encouraged us to join the march on the county courthouse on March 17 to help calm the demonstrators and to deter possible brutality from police and citizenry...
...fact, what appears to have occupied most of his energy during the last decade is not novel writing but a messianic effort at transmogrifying the entire U.S.-society, psyches, applecarts and all. That this is the business of a holy man, or an adman, does not deter him. Mailer yearns to be hip, but he is inescapably square. For only a born square would preach the way he does. That is what is exasperating, touching, and ultimately tedious about...