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...fighting the propaganda of urban racists and reassuring the white worker that the rights bill and the Democratic ticket will not "go too far." Economic issues need not be stressed, for none of the Republican candidates under consideration can snare the labor vote if the race issue remains dormant...
...religious violence that has ripped India and Pakistan for months was touched off by a hair trigger. When a brownish bristle from the head of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir last December, long dormant hatreds erupted between the Hindus and Moslems. Though the relic was ultimately recovered, anti-Hindu rioting broke out in Kashmir and East Pakistan. When refugees reached near by Calcutta with tales of Moslem terror, the Hindus struck back...
...last month, the market has become both healthier and broader. Trading volume has increased by 25%, and buyers are giving their support to a wider range of stocks. Big investors are showing a fresh interest in the long-dormant capital goods issues-metals and machines-but are also continuing to buy the popular consumer goods stocks. There seems good reason for strength in both. Last week, reporting on its quarterly consumer survey, the University of Michigan revealed that the U.S. consumer's optimism and inclinations to buy are at a seven-year high. At the same time, Ford...
McCann questioned why no hue and cry was raised when the legislature authorized the construction 20 months ago. The issue lay dormant until last fall. At a meeting of Organization Ten, a Cambridge civic group, Benjamin Fink, chief engineer of the MDC, assured the 400 members present that there was nothing to worry about. After Fink spoke, Bernays--a new resident of the city and the country's leading public relations man--denounced the MDC representative as "a stooge" and urged an aggressive attack to combat the building of the underpasses. At this meeting were laid the seeds...
Then, although he was kept in an atmosphere as nearly germ-free as possible, the patient got sick. He developed a usually fatal form of tuberculosis: evidently some bacilli had been dormant in his body, and the radiation had destroyed his defenses against infection. Somehow, today's miracle drugs pulled him through, and his new marrow is still manufacturing new cells...