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...Roman Catholic Church, Niebuhr writes in the Christian Century, "is not entirely foolish" when it sees rebellion against the law of God in the disintegration of the medieval mixture of Scripture and philosophy, political power and spiritual prestige. "From the standpoint of the Mater et Magistra encyclical," he says, "what could be clearer than that the path from the Thomistic theory of a just price based upon labor value, to the theory of Adam Smith, guaranteeing social justice by the automatic balances of a free market, descends steeply from the heights of justice to the morass of private greed...
...back until he had won concessions on local work rules and seniority procedures. And McCarrell held the whip hand; since his plant turns out body parts for all five G.M. automaking divisions, he was capable of stifling G.M.'s entire output. When he learned of McCarrell's rebellion, Reuther growled: "If those fellows in Pittsburgh tell us to go to hell, then we are going in there in force to preserve the integrity of the union." Stung by the threat, McCarrell denounced Reuther's statement as "asinine," stomped into Detroit for a showdown...
...clearly a summer's-end, preschool spree. And in Manhattan-where nine policemen were hurt attempting to control the crowd that turned out for an annual West Indies Day parade in Harlem-the nerve-shreddingly humid heat was mostly to blame for trouble. But not all the rebellion could be explained away by back-to-books excesses or hot weather. The U.S. juvenile delinquency rate was up 6% last year over 1959, has more than doubled over the last twelve years. In Houston, where there has been little juvenile delinquency in recent years, police report a 30% increase...
Kids Without Standards. What most disturbed police and social workers was that so much of the current juvenile rebellion took the form of violence for its own sake. In Los Angeles last week, Gene Klossmer, 87, was treating Mrs. Edith Sanford, 70, to a ride along the street in his slow (4 m.p.h.), three-wheel electric cart, when two teen-agers in a 1951 sedan drove up behind him, gleefully pushed the unsteady cart along until it overturned. The elderly riders suffered broken bones and numerous cuts. The two youths drove on-laughing-and showed no signs of remorse when...
...White Paper No. 7 (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A study of the African rebellion against the Portuguese in Angola...