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...charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better get out of the way. Nantucket fishermen still talk about the time a broadbill rammed the whaling ship Fortune, ran its bill right through the hull's copper sheathing, a 3-in.-thick hardwood plank...
...Seewoosagur seems to have made his point. But the polyglot population also includes 126,000 Indian Moslems and 25,000 Chinese who do not seem overly eager for Hindu rule; there may be more than vocal dissent if Sir Seewoosagur's majority tries to carry out the party plank of independence...
...former Democratic Convention delegates, asking the President not to seek re-election because of antiwar sentiment within the party. Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, announced that he is starting a personal campaign aimed not at "dumping Johnson" but at writing a "peace plank" into the 1968 Democratic platform...
Percy's plan-a major plank in his 1966 Senate campaign-calls for the establishment by the Federal Government of a nationwide, nonprofit, private housing federation that would buy and rebuild slum dwellings, then sell them to low-income families on a unit-by-unit basis, thus giving the man in the slum a stake in his own neighborhood. Working from a base of a threeyear, $60 million Government outlay and $2 billion in federal debenture bonds, the plan would ultimately generate up to $1.3 billion in rehabilitated housing...
...quite conceivable that the Congress may fail to reform itself to the extent required. Only time will show what happens. For the present, much more pressing is the necessity to examine some of the other aspects of the recent elections. For example, the rise of regional parties on the plank of regional demands--the D.M.K. is the most prominent example--has already prompted several foreign observers to conclude that India is poised on the brink of national disintegration. While the threat posed by regionalism is genuine, this is, to say the least, an exaggerated conclusion. Much of what will happen...