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...past, because of labor's longtime support of the civil rights movement, Negro leaders have been loath to speak out against discriminatory practices. Now, though few skilled-trades union locals are totally white, civil rights organizations are increasingly restive over the fact that Negro membership rarely amounts to more than a percentage point. Negro apprenticeships to less than 2%. That, says Herbert Hill, labor secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., "is a magnificent expression of tokenism...
Important as it is, Moyers' role is often exasperated. He is no éminence grise, for Johnson is loath to delegate power; and when he does, it is never on a full-authority basis, as was the case with Dwight Eisenhower and Sherman Adams, or, to a lesser degree, with John F. Kennedy and Brother Bobby. The most Moyers can do is nudge the President, but he does so with less trepidation than anyone whose initials are not L.B.J. When the President got to talking at a recent luncheon, it looked as if he would ramble on until dusk...
...disastrous fire at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels grammar school took the lives of 92 pupils, injured 76 others, and left scores of parents with clear grounds for suing the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. Understandably, the parents were loath to go to court against their own hierarchy. But in 1959, on behalf of five injured children, Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed a $1,750,000 damage suit charging that the archdiocese let the school become "a dangerous firetrap." After that, more and more plaintiffs upped the ante...
Like Gilbert and Sullivan's policemen in The Pirates of Penzance, chorusing their intention to attack but loath to do so, Britain's leaders have been demanding an end to the limp management and wasteful labor practices that make the British economy creak. Results to date: roughly zero. Last week the Labor government released its long-expected five-year economic plan, which was designed to give British industry and labor a goal to aim at-and a bit of a kick in that direction. Drawn up by Economics Minister George Brown and in preparation for eleven months...
...increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both the SEATO and CENTO alliances that anchor the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern outposts of the free world's collective security system. As principal architect of that system, the U.S. is loath to see Pakistan wreck it by withdrawing in anger-particularly at a time when Charles de Gaulle threatens to wreck NATO...