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Last summer the Senate approved two proposed constitutional amendments. One was to guarantee equal rights for women. The other would explicitly forbid the President to seize property, except under an act of Congress. This year the Bricker amendment to curb treaty-making powers bemuddled the Senate for weeks until the plan was finally killed by a one-vote margin...
This is not a severe request; considering town feeling, it is a wise one. But while the boys are perfectly happy to have their parties in the fraternities, the girls are not. College regulations forbid its girls to drink, and it is difficult to break this regulation on campus. This has led to the double punch bowl problem and 14-mile trips across the State line to freer New York...
...British trade proposals were "not safe," cabled Ike, and not "in the common interest of the free world." Not only should the West forbid Russia and satellites "equipment and raw materials" of "high war potential," but also certain manufactured goods-particularly goods which Russia might like to buy abroad so that it could devote more of its own industry to military production. Ike strongly suggested that, before any East-West trade barriers are knocked down, the U.S., Britain and France meet quietly to examine I) the real meaning of the U.S.S.R.'s bid for more foreign trade, 2) Britain...
...than to the country. There is no prospect of removing Communists as such from their hundreds of minor posts, for there is no law banning adherents of the second largest political party from government service. But the government may refuse financial support to Red-run unions of government employees, forbid them to join in political strikes under penalty of dismissal...
RACIAL-equality clause, now being rewritten by the Government's contracts committee, will be much tougher. It will forbid discrimination by Government contractors in "employment, upgrading, demotion or transfer, recruitment, recruitment advertising, layoff . . . rates of pay . . . and selection for training...