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Thanks and congratulations to TIME for its Dec. 15 story on the present plight of many Negro colleges and, in that connection, the recent proceedings of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Reasonable, law-abiding Southerners are getting fed up with the irresponsibly excessive coverage-by all news media-of violent extremist activities in the area of race relations...
...found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent to Tito. The people are fed up with it." Says Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper: ''There's a growing feeling that we're putting up a great portion of money and getting kicked around by foreign nations...
...hopper is loaded with two pounds of regular grind. When the button is pressed, a dispenser drops nine grams of coffee into a stainless-steel brewing cup. An immersion coil heats water to 210°. The water is then fed into the brewing cup, mixes with the coffee, then drains out into a second brewing cup below that contains the moist grounds from the last cup that was made. Finally, the coffee drains on through a spout into the user...
...Reserve, which correctly judged that the recession would be mild and so did not overstimulate the economy with too much easy money. The still high rate of unemployment, however, acts to check any inclination by the Federal Reserve to slow economic growth with tighter money-a mistake that the Fed, abetted by the Eisenhower Administration, made after the 1958 recession. Fortnight ago. Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. gently warned that he would not continue to sluice additional bank credit into the economy indefinitely. This was a polite way of saying that he was prepared to raise interest rates...
Perhaps the most successful job of muckraking was Upton Sinclair's searing novel, The Jungle, which contained among other things an indictment of the meatpacking industry that was grotesque but effective: "Here came also cattle which had been fed on 'whiskey-malt,' the refuse of the breweries, and had become what the men called 'steerly'-which means covered with boils that were full of matter. It was a nasty job killing these, for when you plunged your knife into them they would burst and splash foulsmelling stuff into your face." The Jungle came...