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Crisis Sunday. In Boston, Jewish philanthropies donated buildings valued at $1,250,000 for a community and cultural center in the Roxbury slum. In Washington, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle announced a moratorium on all new Roman Catholic church building and improvements so that funds would be freed to "help relieve the chronic causes of poverty in our midst." In Portland, Ore., the Council of Churches designated May 5 "Summer Crisis Sunday," when each congregation will be asked to provide decent jobs for slum dwellers and help provide support for summer programs...
...sake of the singers, Bernstein gave it new prominence, urging it on by jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal work, he freed it of the sentimental encrustations that Strauss never intended; as a result it was sharper, livelier, nobler...
McGill points with particular pride to the changes which civil rights legislation and maturing black political power have wrought in the South. In the past six years alone, he points out, Georgia has freed herself of the blatantly undemocratic county-unit rule, has reapportioned her legislature, and has seen the voting rights act, in conjunction with voter registration projects, raise Negro voting levels throughout the state...
...Freed of his political shackles, Johnson can be expected to move more forcefully than he dared during the years when he was trying to maintain his "big tent" consensus. Congress, for example, can expect a gale of presidential messages, and while the men on Capitol Hill are not notably generous to Presidents whose terms are drawing to a close, they may be spurred to act by a spurt in Johnson's popularity...
...country's judiciary has undertaken to review all cases heard in the 1950s in an effort to right legal injustices, and a special commission has been established to rehabilitate the thousands of victims of the Stalinist purge trials of that period. Church and clergy are fast being freed of restraints, and the Communists' phony religious front organization, called the "Peace Priests," is disintegrating. Last week the Czechoslovaks even had their first strike under Communism. Workers at an electrical-appliance factory in Pisek walked out in complaint against management-and did not come back until the manager signed...