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...trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)- labeled the Kennedy Round because the late President gave them impetus -the air was heavy with torpor and reluctance. After more than a year of preliminary parleys that tried to lay a groundwork on which the conference could proceed, all the delegates had really agreed on was that they still have monumental disagreements to over come. GATT Executive Secretary Eric Wyndham White, whose job was to open the conference with a ringing keynote, had to admit the seriousness of the fail ure to set so much as the terms...
...audience, wave a copy of the civil rights bill and shout, "Do you see this bill? Have you read it? Do you know what it says?" With hardly any listeners having read the bill, he could then exclaim, "Well, I'll tell you what it says!" and proceed to distort the truth...
...their feet. Our musings were interrupted by a loud "Hello," from up ahead. It came from Dominic, a friendly other-side-of-the-river Tunnel man who was waiting to take us the rest of the way. Our South Yard guide, having reached the border of his territory, could proceed no farther. We waved goodbye as he turned around to go back, and then, with Dominic encouraging us, squeezed past the third arch on the last leg of this most uncomfortable part of the trip...
...fact, the U.S. decided months ago to proceed unilaterally on a plan for mothballing but not dismantling four plutonium reactors, all about ten years old. Still, by the end of this year, the Atomic Energy Commission will activate a new production reactor at Hanford Works, Wash., able to turn out one ton of plutonium (which costs $15,000 per lb.) a year-about as much as three of the older reactors could produce together...
...ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks to proceed. Then they stumbled over another crucial theological point - and over a matter of personal piety...