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Equilibrium. These are some of the problems and challenges of an economy that on the surface produced in 1963 just the kind of balanced year that economists have been trying to order up. The steady growth brought no dangerous excesses that might overturn things and cause a recession. The economy seemed in healthy equilibrium, and no one foresaw the immediate end of the recovery. It remains for 1964 to demonstrate whether the economy has the drive not only to break more records but to achieve that extra something that it also needs. The time seems to be at hand...
...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...
...turned out to be a remarkably shallow and ineffectual clique; the army, said Conservative Party Leader Francisco Salazar, "has no strong leader, and it doesn't want to get mixed up in politics." And even those most disillusioned with Arosemena's personal shortcomings are not anxious to overturn...
...Cabinet swiftly approved a bill extending the life of the special Court of Military Justice, and the bill was passed by De Gaulle's Assembly 271-170 (the Senate last week stubbornly voted the bill down but, like Britain's House of Lords, is powerless to overturn decisions of the lower house...
...anti-Castro press was in an uproar and a group of Deputies wanted to haul Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas on the carpet to explain himself. Nowhere was the clamor louder than in Argentina, where the outraged leaders of the three military services threatened to overturn the government of President Arturo Frondizi...