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Harry Truman played fortissimo also on his successor's foreign policy ("The present Administration has acted like an overbearing banker with a glass eye, not like a loyal and faithful friend to other nations"), on the U.S. missile lag and the possibility of a 5? postage stamp. But he was well pedaled down in one area: concerning civil rights he could only advise that "the Democratic Party must stand firmly and forthrightly for the full enjoyment and protection of civil rights . . . firm and foresighted leadership might accomplish this without calling out the Army for help." Seated way back...
...Democratic chieftains in the Senate saw it last week, their party's Big Issue for this fall's congressional elections will no longer be the missile lag but the economic sag. The shift from lag to sag was evident both in dark grey oratory on the Senate floor and in busy bill-drafting off the floor...
...consumers, the lag in the commercial nuclear program is no great worry. With plenty of coal, oil and gas, the U.S. can afford to wait. But what may not be economic for the U.S. is often economic for other nations with less resources. Britain, whose conventional-power costs are estimated at double those in the U.S. (7½ mills per kw-h), needs nuclear power right now; so do many other nations. Britain is going ahead under a nationalized program to build the actual power plants. It has been operating its Calder Hall plant, half again as big as Shippingport...
...statistics in one package it comes out only every quarter, "thus ' often reflects where the U.S. economy has been instead of where it is. Says a Chicago banker: "It's a sluggish graph line. When you get a rapidly developing situation, as we have now a lag can be murderous...
...pride. Even taking into consideration the shocking fact that the state's pupils rank five points below the national average in IQ, youngsters still do not begin to accomplish all they could. In scholastic achievement, ninth-graders are nearly two years behind the national norm. Third-graders lag by half a year, sixth-graders by a year and a quarter, twelfth-graders by nine-tenths of a year...