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Despite the laggard rails, the general feel ing of traders on Wall Street is that the Dow-Jones industrials will soon have an other try at topping their all-time high...
...friend, Representative Frank ("Fearless") Thompson Jr., a handsome, hard-driving New Jersey Congressman who matches Bobby's own energy and relentless single-mindedness. Working around the clock and country, Frank Thompson has spent $100,000 on the program, recruiting 200,000 door-to-door canvassers to goad laggard voters into the registration centers. He stalks his workers mercilessly, personally spot-checking their screenings of the election districts and frequently uncovering bypassed Democrats...
...issue, the race problem, neither paper has shown any inclination to copy the Press's boldness. The Chronicle generally temporizes, the Post-run by onetime WAC commander Oveta Gulp Hobby-usually maintains editorial silence. This month, when Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the city's laggard school board to step up the rate of public-school integration, only the Chronicle and the Press editorialized on his decision. The Chronicle was mild and vague: "It is hoped that all citizens will cooperate." The Press said: "Judge Connally's order is one with which...
Polite But Hesitant. On his tour of Europe, Under Secretary Dillon was getting a polite hearing, and a general assent that it was time for Europeans to shoulder more of the burden. The British and French were happy to point a finger at West Germany as the laggard in West Europe's aid spending. In Bonn, key Cabinet members heard Dillon out sympathetically, but the new 1960 budget introduced in the Bundestag last week earmarked less than $25 million for direct governmental technical assistance to other countries. (NATO partner Germany also spends only one-fourth of its budget...
...questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family who always thought he was "dumb," the bright laggard who needs to be prodded. To Conant. guidance is "the keystone of the arch of public education...