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...There was widespread admiration through the free world for Dwight Eisenhower's dignified rebuff of Khrushchev's wild demands, but a concern-not confined to the U.S.-that Washington's handling of the U-2 affair had been clumsy and inept...
...opposition Socialist Party seized on the issue to stall parliamentary ratification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi's new security pact with the U.S. With near-hysteria, London's Daily Herald called the U.S. a "summit saboteur," and the Daily Mail angrily described Eisenhower as "a tumbled titan . . . with inept hands...
...that is the import of these five questions, 'the separation of Church and State' is indeed in very serious trouble, not so much from the Roman Catholic hierarchy with its inept political maneuvers, but from the priests and prophets of the new idolatry...
...merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education system; 6) establishment of a $4,000,000 business-development corporation ("little RFC") and a $2,000,000 industrial-loan authority to bolster the state's sagging coal-mining and agricultural economy...
American communications media have been singularly inept or indifferent about covering this story in depth; the New York Times is the only newspaper with full-time correspondents south of the Sahara. Television has recently been making a significant effort on Africa: NBC-TV has covered the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and will soon cover Ghana; CBS-TV plans a feature on Nigeria next month. And while other universities have advanced understanding, Harvard has shared the general somnolence about Africa...