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...They joined Republicans and some Northern Democrats in believing that the bill would work some hardships on farmers, retailers, small businessmen-and would in fact prompt employers to cut down the work force, thus increasing unemployment at the unskilled level, where it hurts most. Argued Kennedy, in a pointed plea at his press conference: "I find it difficult to understand how anybody could object to paying somebody who works in a business which makes over $1,000,000 a year by 1963 $50 a week." But even then the Administration was already shopping for a compromise...
...plea was made by Dr. Charles Lee Buxton, 56. chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University and of the obstetric services at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. He made his case by citing the plights of two of his patients, pseudonymously listed...
Danger in Power. Last week Columnist Shannon went farther than ever before —,with a plea to intellectuals not to follow Kennedy blindly. Wrote he: "The love affair between the intellectuals and President Kennedy is a striking feature of the political scene. This romance may be fine from the viewpoint of Mr. Kennedy, but it is doubtful if it is a wise venture for the intellectuals...
...Tiny-Minority Plea. In four Deep South states (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina), public school integration at any level is limited to the two Negroes who recently entered the University of Georgia. Roman Catholic integration is confined to one elementary parochial school in South Carolina, a seminary in Mississippi and the Jesuit-run Spring Hill College in Mobile. It is likely to remain so. Charleston's Bishop Paul J. Hallinan gives his church's explanation: "The Catholics are 1.3% of the population in our state. If the full federal power cannot carry this off, it's fatuous...
...Cardinal Spellman's plea for federal aid to parochial schools, I noted with interest that his drive to raise $25 million for new Catholic high schools in New York was oversubscribed by $15 million...