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...this would be enough to talk about at length. But TIME'S object this week is a little more. The nation has steadied down since its first feverish response to Russia's sweep into outer space. A series of impressive public school reforms and experiments has begun. As the new school year opens, the top education story is a growing campaign to galvanize every talent at every level-a kind of common consent that equality of effort ranks as high on the agenda as equality of opportunity. This week's cover story is a panoramic view...
...battle was for fiscal stability, and his stand against free-handed spending last week withstood the nearly irresistible force of pork-barrel politics. Whipped. The clash: an all-out drive by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and his big Democratic majority to override the President's veto of the public-works appropriation bill, a $1.2 billion barrel full of rivers-and-harbors projects and other fat goodies dear to politicians of both parties. Rayburn whipped all but six Democrats into a rare moment of unity, but failed by one vote to override. Two days later, still seething over the defeat...
Members' Rights. Labor-boss coercion is outlawed, members get the unqualified right to vote in union elections (by secret ballot), may speak up against policies, get fair and public hearing in disciplinary procedures, sue in U.S. courts if justice is not provided under union procedure...
...right to vote, still denied to many Negroes ("a betrayal of the ideal set forth in the Declaration of Independence"), the commission recommended strong new federal action. Items: ¶ A federal law requiring states to preserve registration records for five years, during which they would be subject to public inspection; states have a right to determine voting qualifications, the report said, but the right "is not unlimited."¶ An amendment to the Civil Rights Act forbidding any election official to discriminate by failure to carry out a public duty, e.g., resigning from office to avoid accepting registrations, and a recommendation...
Press and public opinion erupted. Krishna Menon, 62, is so oblivious of his own mistakes and so coldly cruel about the mistakes of others that even his well-wishers frequently find him intolerable. The fact that he had apparently precipitated strife in the high command at a time when India might be facing battle with Red China set off loud demands that he be sacked. The Hindustan Times proclaimed: "Krishna Menon must go!" The Indian Express called Menon "preeminently the guilty...