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...billion, four-year school-construction bill on the grounds that "the need of the American children for schools is today" and that "the Supreme Court in reaching its [antisegregation] decision . . . specifically provided that there be gradual implementation." (Prospects that Congress would agree brightened last week, then grew dimmer. Under pressure from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and New York's Representative Adam Clayton Powell, organized labor, which had apparently supported Ike's stand, began to backtrack. At week's end Walter Reuther made it clear that unless the Administration promised to withhold federal...
...more effective and better integrated policy for selling its agricultural surpluses abroad. To this end, both Secretary Benson and General Foods' ex-Chairman Clarence Francis, head of a surplus disposal committee, are hard at work. But with farm output steadily rising throughout the world, the prospect is growing dimmer and dimmer that the answer to the U.S. surplus problem is the disposal of food abroad...
...84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing tax reduction past Virginia's Senator Byrd until Government spending is sharply cut-a prospect that is even dimmer than it was before the election...
...Europe, EDC's prospects become dimmer by the month, and no plan to replace it is in sight. Behind this general failure lie some specific failures: the deterioration of France, the growing apathy of West Germany, the deadlock over Trieste...
...Jean's parents, while taking a dim view of a pregnant daughter, took an even dimmer one of the fledgling poet, and said no to a marriage. Fuming with hurt pride, Burns delivered a round, ranting curse on Mrs. Armour to a friend: "May all the Furies . . . await the old harridan . . . May Hell string the arm of Death to throw the fatal dart, and . . . rouse the infernal flames to welcome her approach!" Then he added cautiously: "For Heaven's sake, burn this letter," as if suspecting that within two years she would be his mother...