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...Justice Department has been diligent in prosecuting violations of civil rights: it has not. Nor is it to argue that the President has exhibited the warm creative leadership that he could so effectively focus upon the national Negro problem: his leadership in this regard has been virtually nil. But what we do say, and what we have tried to show by various case studies in this special supplement, is that the nation's racial wounds can be bound up without malice and with success--if those involved in the delicate art of integration constantly have in mind both principle...
...article on religion is abysmally bad. The lack of research and factual mistakes are matched by the jargon-filled sentences, and shoddy organization. The incorrect use of such words as "chiliastic," and sentences like "..the possibility of a student existing in an associative void is practically nil" are typical. For the second time the impact of The Rev. George A. Buttrick on Memorial Church and undergraduate church-going habits is ignored. The Christian Fellowship, an extremely unrepresentative, largely fundamentalist group, is used to represent Protestant students on campus, and is compared with Hillel and the Catholic Club. For the second...
Since its face value is nil, and its implied usefulness is negative, the proposal should be sent the way of its predecessor. Those people who militate for curtailment of the Executive's power to conduct foreign relations must not be allowed to sow their seeds under the guise of a general and deceptively innocent constitutional amendment...
...through the ranks of "The Team," has disappeared almost totally after the President's heart attack. Since September, the Soviets have smiled their way through Asia and have courted, in a dangerously successful manner, neutrals from Yugoslavia to Cambodia. Imaginative responses from Washington to new Soviet techniques have been nil. In fact, the Middle Eastern muddle is just the latest and best instance of a policy that evidently evolved while the policy-makers were losing drinks at shuffleboard in the Bahamas. Even Senator George, that most agreeable Democrat, has now stated flatly that the President's leadership is simply...
...going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction: nil...