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...President's energy has been greatly sapped by his illnesses, but it is not only reason for his failure to exert political pressure. In foreign trade, after asking for a long-range reciprocal trade program, he agreed to an ineffective one-year compromise. Similarly, when Republican Congressmen killed a public housing bill, the enacting of which he had termed a "moral obligation," the President said nothing...
...diseases, finally become vegetables who have to be diapered and tube-fed and, in the phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they die from a swift and general collapse of the body's metabolic processes...
...Russians are ahead of us." Said DuBridge: "It is true that in Russia more men and women received degrees in science and engineering than in the U.S. So what? Maybe that is because in the past 100 years they have so neglected their technical strength that they must now exert strenuous efforts to build it up. If this is true, then our rate of production should not be determined by their weaknesses-only by our own. Let us ask how many engineers we need to do our job, and not take over their figures or the numbers they require...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, Georgia's Walter F. George read a manifesto signed by 82 Southern Representatives and 19 Southern Senators. It pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts...
...second form of lobby technique, through campaign expenditures in the constituencies, should receive careful Congressional consideration. Federal laws regulating campaign expenditures are notoriously inadequate. Through large contributions, placed in strategic constituencies, lobbies can exert great influence on lawmakers without ever going to the Capitol...