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...Perhaps Congress could take the trouble to clear up some of the peculiarities of the deferment and exemption provisions, but these and the anxieties they may create among students are obviously not powerful enough reasons to scrap the draft. It has been suggested that Congress renew the act only for a two-year period and appoint a special committee to report on the inequities of the present laws, but even this moderate suggestion seems fated to oblivion...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Corrected Draft | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...more concessions. He promised to form a government company for further oil development. Moreover, 50-50 is on the way out: "I could not say that 50-50 should be converted to 75-25, but this matter should be the object of serious studies by technicians." He will doubtless renew-with less disruptive speed-his own wars on slums, illiteracy, sickness, agricultural backwardness. In the U.N. and elsewhere, the U.S. can count Venezuela under Betancourt as a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: EXILE'S SECOND CHANCE | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...that gives Chamberlain high hopes that the Sixth District's rank-and-file union members will not necessarily blame him for their economic troubles. Seventy-seven percent of the hourly wage earners answering a Chamberlain poll last March said they believed both labor and management should renew then-existing contracts "to avoid possible labor strife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Meeting the People | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...fondness for grandeur, the British government early decided that it preferred him to a government run by paratroop colonels or to the old harebrained parliamentary system, which proclaimed its loyalty to the Atlantic alliance but was often a drag on it. Some British officials nonetheless feared that he might renew his vision of France Alone, and try to negotiate separately with the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Tale of Two Cities | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Wasters & Spenders | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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