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...Overblown. After allowing several antibusing Congressmen to score oratorical points for the folks back home, Celler turned to the most prominent of the amendment versions. As suggested by New York's first-term Republican Congressman Norman Lent, the amendment would provide that "no public school student shall, because of his race, creed or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school." Lent proved a weak witness; Virginia's conservative Republican Richard Poff, whom Nixon has wanted to nominate to the Supreme Court, questioned the ambiguity of the language. "I don't have the best...
Even Committee proponents of the amendment seemed deeply impressed by the countertestimony of the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame and chairman of the U.S. Commission an Civil Rights. He protested that busing was a politically overblown issue, based on the too careless reaction by the press to some outraged parents, and that integration was actually working well in many schools-especially when parents did not interfere (see box). "Where you go to school has a determinative effect on your life," said Father Hesburgh. "For many, the only way to get a good education...
Today Twiggy and Justin are in the movie business. Twiggy is the star of Ken Russell's overblown but engaging film The Boy Friend (TIME, Dec. 20), and she will be the lead in a musical she and Justin want to do about the '30s, entitled Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance. Justin, though credited as "Production Associate," at one point found himself persona non grata on the set of The Boy Friend, and is taking no chances with the new movie they are planning-he will be the coproducer. "We don't talk to agents or read anything...
...Head. Nixon's own legislative problem is just as difficult. His overblown "new American revolution" in domestic affairs is stalled, partly because of the recession, partly because he is preoccupied by global politics, and partly because he has failed to generate enough popular enthusiasm for his programs to overcome Democratic opposition. Except for his belated moves to control the economy, his performance in addressing the problems at home has been weak, and this is his greatest political vulnerability...
Except for his action on the economy, Nixon has failed to convey any feeling of urgency in his attacks on domestic problems. The "New American Revolution" that he sketched last January in his State of the Union speech never resembled John Mitchell's overblown description: "The most important document since they wrote the Constitution." But it did include some highly commendable ideas. None has yet been acted upon...