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...readymade opportunity to set forth national policies and win a mandate for them. But he put off any action that might possibly prove embarrassing until after Nov. 3, and talked about, urgent matters only in generalities. He failed to deliver on his own pre-campaign pledge to furnish a blueprint for "the Great Society." He preferred to point his finger at church steeples and cry of his critics: "God forgive them, for they really know not what they...
...scientific know-how to continue. Because of Russian aid from 1950 to 1959 (when the Moscow-Peking split first fissured), they also have a network of operating uranium mines, at least four nuclear reactors, a raft of Soviet-trained technicians, and a rudimentary basic industrial plant that can furnish most of the products needed to maintain a small atomic-bomb program...
...Belts v. Brady, for example, the Court upheld the robbery conviction of a jobless Maryland farm hand who had been too poor to hire a lawyer. The Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel applies only in federal courts, said the Court, ruling that states need furnish indigents with lawyers only in "shocking" circumstances...
...purposes of VISTA is to furnish an alternative to the Peace Corps for citizens who cannot afford to serve a two-year tour or who prefer to stay in this country. Accordingly, the standard term of enlistment in VISTA will be one year, including a month of training. But for people who can only (or would rather) volunteer for part-time work, neither the Peace Corps nor VISTA has anything to offer...
...have known Lady Bird since she was a baby. I was bookkeeper for her father for 20 years. He had from 125 to 150 tenants on his farms, both white and colored. I have never known him to evict anyone and never known him to refuse to furnish them with groceries, clothing and doctors when needed. I have known him to help people when he knew that he would never be paid. The ridiculous statements made about Mr. Taylor in your magazine could not have come from anyone who knew this charitable...