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...textual piracies pave the way for his ideological sneakiness. Terrified to read our articles closely enough to see what they say and how they say it, Mr. A. is a moral as well as an aesthetic coward. Dogmatically he extracts a sentence from an article--rather than troubling to restate the argument of the article in his own terms. Then he sneers. A few steps in the critical process seem to have been left out or aped...
...Secretary of Labor were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write a compromise bill of rights, called in moderate Republicans such as California's Tommy Kuchel for help...
...nose fitted with a 160-lb. capsule, its second stage jammed with equipment measuring the satellite's ability to stabilize itself in free flight (see SCIENCE). Significantly, the capsule was the first of its kind, a forerunner of the type that will later carry biomedical specimens and pave the way for the development of reconnaissance and man-in-space satellites...
...timing of his declaration may have been determined by interest in fostering Soviet ties with Communist Poland. Soviet attempts to settle German issues could be construed in Poland as being designed to pave the way for peaceful settlements and a demilitarized zone along the cold war front in Europe...
...free market price of copper on the London Metal Exchange rose to 25? per Ib., highest since September 1957, before it fell back. Though domestic stocks of refined copper are 253,463 tons, highest since World War II, traders figured that the stockpiling could cut down the surplus, pave the way for a rise from the 25?-per-lb. price still maintained by primary producers. But copper miners pointed out that any real pickup would have to come from copper consumers, who have yet to increase their buying. Said Phelps Dodge's President Robert G. Page: "There has been...