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...tougher stance of its own toward improving teachers' salaries and working conditions. Organized primarily by professors of education, the N.E.A. has long been dominated by its principals and superintendents rather than by its teacher membership, and A.F.T. officials sneer at it as a "company union." Traditionally favoring discreet pressure rather than open protest, the N.E.A. has done its most effective work at the state level, where its sophisticated lobbyists have cajoled legislatures into sharp increases in state school...
...sorts last week, when the new National Traffic Safety Agency issued its first set of federal automobile-safety standards. Acting Under Secretary of Commerce (for transportation) Lowell K. Bridwell described the 95 pages of rules and specifications as "reasonable, practicable and appropriate." The auto manufacturers, responding with a discreet public silence and a private sense of relief, seemed to agree...
...many people are as relaxed as Author Jean Kerr, who remarks: "I didn't bother to be discreet. I thought, if I have to be careful I just won't tell anything. So I told everything." Each interviewer has his own questioning techniques, but what they all strive for is a rapport that will allow the subject to relax enough to show his real character. "It's wonderful if people will talk freely, just bubble on," says Theater Critic Theodore Kalem. "Lauren Bacall happens to be the bar-buddy sort of girl who is easy to talk...
...varied, and new attractions, such as the performing dolphins at Taylor Pryor's Sea Life Park at Makapuu Point, draw enthusiastic visitors. But the visitors do not necessarily return to stay at Waikiki. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. are now moving out to the sleek, discreet $11 million Kahala Hilton on the more exclusive, eastern side of Diamond Head. Even farther away, Chinn Ho has broken ground for a 5,000-acre resort at isolated Makaha, which will be the first to put adequate hotel space close to the superb northern surfing beaches on Oahu...
...went further, describing "a reconciliation with the East" as "one of the great unfinished tasks of our generation." Since then, the President has eased trade restrictions on the export of more than 400 nonstrategic items to Eastern Europe, approved the opening of a Moscow-New York air route, put discreet pressure on congressional leaders to approve a long-pending agreement to open consular offices in selected U.S. and Soviet cities, and authorized the exchange of weather information with the Russians. Further, he has suggested several more substantive steps: a mutual reduction of forces in Central Europe, a treaty against...