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Race, religion, reapportionment-each year the storm that swirls around the Supreme Court of the United States gets fiercer. To some Americans, the nine black-robed Justices have struck blow after blow for national maturity...
...more. "You must have confidence in yourselves," he pleaded. "You have honored me as a leader and as a teacher, and now the teacher says: 'It is time to return to the class.' " No sooner had Muñoz finished than the chants erupted again-louder and fiercer. He grabbed the microphone. "You cannot make me violate my own conscience!" he roared above the din-and that was that...
Like John Perdew, we saw but we did not feel. Now he feels. He feels the degradation of the Negroes, and he feels their relentless strength as they wage an ever fiercer battle for their rights as men and citizens. And he feels the shame of watching an American court make a travesty of justice, as it has and will do this fall in his own case...
...Fiercer Competition. In search of profit, businessmen themselves have been inspired to boost their spending on plant and equipment, which has been one of the weakest parts of the economy in the last few years. This year capital spending will climb to a record $40 billion. The most prodigious spender of all. American Telephone & Telegraph, has increased its annual budget by $1 billion since 1959, this year will raise it to $3.1 billion -more than the gross national product of many nations. Joe Block's Inland Steel has increased its capital budgets from $42 million to $110 million...
...always has before, but for modernization to make industry more efficient and competitive. About 70% of the programmed spending will go for new or better equipment instead of bricks and mortar. In today's economy, modernization is more vital to industry than ever before, because competition is fiercer than ever both at home and abroad. Inland Steel's Block competes against U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, but both have to compete against Japanese and German steelmakers; all the free world's steelmakers, of course, compete against aluminum, concrete and other substitutes. Oil is competing against natural...