Word: pleas
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Acting on a plea from five Virginia Negroes, the Supreme Court last week outlawed the poll tax, one of America's first and last barriers to full Negro suffrage. Though only four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still retained the tax for state elections*(the 24th Amendment barred it in federal elections), it was nonetheless an effective deterrent to voting for many Southern Negroes...
...staple crop. Apparently the increased production of cocoa in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast had little to do with the falling price. Azikiwe is justified in condemning the mixture of "progressive and reactionary tactics" which the U.S. has employed in Africa, but his argument is weakened by his plea for the U.S. to channel aid through Britain and France. Would such channeling be a "step forward," or just a reversion to colonialism...
Instead of an article lambasting management for its latest misdeeds, there was an article chiding labor for its lack of involvement in higher education. Instead of an editorial calling for the repeal of 14(b) and state right-to-work laws, there was a plea for less labor "ineptitude" in politics. Instead of photos of labor leaders shaking hands with one another in a ritual display of solidarity, there were some stunning color illustrations, ranging from still lifes to abstracts. From cover to cover, the first two issues of Lithopinion, the new quarterly magazine put out by Local...
Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet, presumably on Pope Paul's orders, hastened to spike further debate by reasserting the church's traditional teaching. But Zoghbi's jarring plea, says Dominican Theologian Eduard Schillebeeckx, "placed the problem on the table, and that in itself is most important...
...talking 'Win.' He was much tougher than McNamara ever was before our committee, and tougher than Rusk." Senator Wayne Morse, who likes weak talk, grumped: "I think he has lost all his persuasiveness among people who think. I never expected my Vice President to make this plea...