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President Kennedy has done all but claim Divine inspiration for his Trade Liberalization Act. Indeed, at some moments it sounds like he has even gone beyond that; in his formal "Message on Trade" to Congress, for example, he said in part, "Several hundred times as many workers owe their jobs directly or indirectly to exports as are in the small group--estimated to be less than one-half than one per cent of all workers--who might be adversely affected by a sharp increase in imports." Several hundred times? Even in Heaven, 200 times one-half per cent is already...
...sheer gaudiness, the Estes mess dramatizes the farm scandal more vividly than ever before. If that dramatization were to result in something really being done about the farm fiasco, who knows but that the U.S. might even owe a vote of thanks to none other than Billie Sol Estes...
...speech, Kennedy declared himself "honored to be among the many friends of Al Vellucci," and asserted that "all the people of the nation owe a debt to Al for his contributions, conviction, and dedication." "Your riches are greater than the treasures of kings," Kennedy told Vellucci...
...feel we all owe a debt of gratitude to the saintly Sister Nazarena [April 13], who is dedicating her life in prayer...
Even without formal organization, that kind of parental judiciousness seems to pay off. Says Mrs. Cleo McNelly, a Cleveland mother of a twelve-year-old girl: "We owe it to our children to be unpopular with them sometimes. They have a right on occasion to think we are heels. When pressure is on them to join their group in something they know they shouldn't do, they should be able to say, 'I'd be glad to go along, but my parents are heels. They...