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...other U.S. cities Puerto Ricans have moved in with little furor. Some 6,000 Puerto Ricans live in Lorain, Ohio, drawn by work in the National Tube Co.'s mills. Says Carl Longwell, president of the United Steelworkers' local: "They are definitely as efficient as any other workmen"-which suggests that cutting Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. is no particularly desirable objective for anyone...
...whose words created such furor had held no political office since 1946, had expressed no public position on political issues since 1954. He had only a handful of avowed followers in Parliament and offered his countrymen only the most unspecific of programs. Yet no man in France last week cast so long a shadow or so completely embodied the crisis of the Fourth Republic as General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle...
...Chandigarh are gradually developing a local pride, and are beginning to look down on other Indian cities. They take pleasure in pointing out in New Delhi some architectural features, e.g., sun-breakers and louvers, copied from Chandigarh. Architect Le Corbusier, often the center of controversy, claims to dislike the furor, but clearly is not surprised by it. "I am like a lightning conductor," he declares. "I attract storms...
...furor attending the resignation of Richard A. Mack from the Federal Communications Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) has obscured an even more serious situation. Entirely apart from skulduggery and influence-peddling, the critical fact is that the federal regulatory agencies, which make decisions vitally affecting both industry and the public, are not doing the job they are supposed to do in the way it should be done. They operate at a snail's pace in a jet age, bog down helplessly in incredibly lengthy and complicated procedures that entail enormous delays and staggering expense to all involved. Items...
...Maria Christina (nicknamed Marijke). There was talk of the faith healer's insidious influence over the Queen; there were even reports that Juliana and her consort. Prince Bernhard, were so divided on the princess' care that they were considering divorce. But the Queen banished the healer, the furor subsided, and, acting on the advice of physicians, the royal couple decided on a new approach. Marijke. who is blind in one eye and has only partial vision in the other, had been sheltered from normal children's activities, and a helping hand stood by in case she fell...