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Religious controversy was avoided partly because the bill offers only indirect aid to parochial schools and because much of this aid benefits poor children-a feature difficult to attack. But parochial schools were also included in the wide-open Title III, which particularly pleases Catholic educators since it constitutes a sharp thrust toward broadly based general aid. To a great extent, this was made possible by the ecumenical trend in the U.S. today, which has eased religious tensions. (President Kennedy had hobbled himself with a self-imposed difficulty: his determination to do nothing that might be interpreted as pro-Catholic...
While Swarthmore students were putting pressure on their administration to withdraw funds from Chase Manhattan, Aggrey Awori '65 lamented Harvard's indirect investments in South Africa at Faneuil Hall last evening...
...opposing forces: Roman Catholic demands for federal funds for parochial schools, and opposing arguments, cited by Kennedy himself, which held that direct federal aid to parochial schools would be unconstitutional. In what may long be remembered as a classically deft maneuver, Johnson avoided both obstacles by providing just enough indirect aid to parochial schools to satisfy Catholics without outraging constitutionalist sentiments...
Stanley criticized liberals and conservatives, intellectuals and dilettantes, and everyone from "that fine local institution, Harvard," for being soft on Communism. His speech, entitled "Red Heads of State," illustrated how the Communists have moved nowhere since World War II without the indirect--or direct--aid of the United States...
...promising that things were going to get efficient or he would know the reason why, Brezhnev proclaimed his intention "to combat resolutely red tape and window dressing." He called for "fuller use of the material incentive," meaning the profit motive, in "overcoming the lag of agricultural production." In an indirect slap at Chinese collectivization, Brezhnev announced the removal of "unfounded restrictions" on private farming-"the plots of land worked by farmers, factory and office workers"-restrictions that Brezhnev even more than Khrushchev realizes are a drag on Soviet output...