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Acting under a provision of the 1965 voting rights law, the Justice Depart ment quickly entered the case, asked Federal District Court Judge Daniel Thomas to order the ballots counted...
...More. Sukarno man aged his comeback subtly. Outwardly he appeared submissive, while secretly calling in junior officers for sessions ripe with flattery and promises. The seeds of rivalry were quick to sprout. At the same time, he wooed and won Moslem groups long neglected by the govern ment. All the while, the Bung was practicing the traditional Indonesian musjawarah, a catharsis by conversation that ultimately leads to consensus. Last week Sukarno felt it had been reached...
...Sierra Leone, I was given a road project in Bombali district. I Kriolized (after Krio, the Englishderived lingua franca of the country) my technical words--amma, c'ment, 'spana--dropped them expertly and waited for cheers and applause from my workers. Meanwhile, I read something called, "How to Build a Bridge," and I built one (I'm still laughing...
...threat of a nationwide railroad strike to protest the govern ment's decision to hold wage increases to 3½% a year. Wilson met it smoothly...
...economy from spinning out of control, the Johnson Administration has been applying the "new economics," a kind of Keynesianism-plus that relies on Government intervention to sustain steady, noninflationary growth. As Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler put it in a speech to the Executives' Club of Chicago: "Your Govern- ment stands ready to blow the whistle impartially on labor and on business...