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Chuca Choo, Chuca Choo. Several other railroad unions had the same kind of origin as the Firemen. Working on the railroad was a hazardous way of making a living in the 19th century. Many a fireman was scarred by a boiler explosion, many a yardman was mashed between cars. So often did brakemen fall from atop moving cars that one in three would be injured or killed in the course of a year. Understandably, insurance companies were reluctant to insure railroaders. In the railroad workers' need for insurance the first rail unions had their beginnings, as fraternal insurance societies...
...clause instead of the 14th Amendment, the Kennedy Administration's Title II of 1963 is essentially the same as the law passed in 1875. The bill presently before Congress provides that "all persons shall be entitled, without discrimination or segregation on account of race, color, religion or national origin, to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages and accommodations of [certain] public establishments." Opponents of the Administration's approach don't believe that the Supreme Court would overturn a public-accommodations law based on the 14th Amendment...
Indonesia, Malaya and the Philippines are "triplets who became separated at birth, who were placed under the care of different foster parents but who have now come of age and are trying to rediscover their common origin and shape their common destiny." This description of the three Malay states was offered last year by Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal. In Manila last week, the top ministers of the three nations made plans to bring the triplets together again. The event suggested that, at least for the time being, cantankerous Indonesia is getting to be a more responsible citizen in the Southeast...
Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, will preside at the morning session, and Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturer on Social Sciences will speak on "The Nature and Origin of Racial Prejudice...
...commissioners (delegates) at the 175th Presbyterian General Assembly in Des Moines last week overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the church constitution, declaring that Presbyterians "are obligated to welcome into fellowship" anyone who desires to share in their worship, and that refusal on the basis of "color, origin or worldly condition" causes "a scandal to the Gospel." With less unanimity, they went on to take a strong stand, roughly like the U.S. Supreme Court's, against Bible-reading and prayers in public schools...