Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs of weakness. Membership has slipped by 16% from its 1963 peak, and many remaining members are inactive. While the convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization must show that its reasoned approach can still satisfy black ambitions at an acceptably rapid pace. Whether that can be done remains in doubt...
...used to pack visitors to the canyon (at $16 a round trip). Some 6,000 came by foot or horseback last year, but the tribe has almost nothing in the way of handcrafted goods, restaurants or inns that might encourage visitors to leave their money behind. Moreover, the horses help to keep the tribe isolated. Efforts to put a cable car line or Jeep trail into Supai have been resisted by the Indians, who fear that their only reliable source of income will be destroyed...
...American goods. Nixon should seek to reduce congressional weight on the conduct of foreign relations, because the punitive legislation that Congress has enacted drastically reduces the President's room for maneuvering. Washington might consider channeling assistance through multinational agencies to avoid charges of political string-pulling. That would help mute the charge that the U.S. cares only about preserving the status quo and all too readily supports military regimes...
...lifted its ban on credit arms sales to Peru and Ecuador, imposed because of their seizures of U.S. fishing boats, and thus opened the way for a conference to discuss the offshore-waters dispute. From Latin America came a constructive suggestion of what Latins themselves might do to help. Colombia's Lleras Restrepo, back from a visit to the U.S., called for a conference of North American and Latin American labor unions to discuss "a better international division of labor...
Despite the different faiths of the presiding clergymen, the half-hour service is recognizably Protestant in style. It usually begins with a Christian doxology and a short prayer, followed by a hymn -such solid traditional fare as Faith of Our Fathers or O God, Our Help in Ages Past-led by a visiting choir. The sermons, about twelve minutes long, are usually extemporaneous. Pat Nixon calls them "little gems" and plans to privately publish a collection in booklet form. There follows another hymn, benediction, and adjournment to the State Dining Room for coffee and sweet rolls...