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...Senate launched the 87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed as pro forma as a Capitol guide's speech. Question at issue: How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate-and thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters...
...then bound into place with one to three rods, which are fastened to the spine with metal hooks. The rods are readily accepted by the body, says Dr. Harrington, and need never be removed. Affixed to the spine just beneath the back muscles, they cause no pain, do not restrict physical activity. After ten days in the hospital and a six-week convalescent period, says Surgeon Harrington, youngsters equipped with rods can run, swim, play tennis. The only restriction: no contact sports such as football...
Would a Catholic majority seek to restrict the religious rights of others? "Officially and really American Catholics do not want now or in the future a law which would make Catholicism the favored religion of this land. They do not want the religious freedom of American non-Catholics to be curtailed in any way. They sincerely want the present First Amendment to be retained and become ever more effective. With a note of desperation, I ask, what more...
...Many Laws. Encumbered by too many laws and overlapping rules, France relies too much on faith in paper regulations, not enough on enforcement. Cartels that restrict competition are all too blithely tolerated, says the report, recommending U.S.-style restraints on monopoly. There are far too many subsidies supporting inefficient businesses, e.g., in the alcohol, sugar and flour-milling industries. Farms are often too small to reap the harvest of mechanization, and inefficient tenant farmers are kept in business by state grants. The food distribution system is archaic, encouraging low turnover and high profit margins. The report's solution...
...could count on their support at the U.N. The only General Assembly votes Khrushchev could be utterly sure of were those of the Soviet satellites (see box), plus that of Cuba's ineffable Fidel Castro-who was put into his proper slot by a State Department decision to restrict him to Manhattan Island along with Khrushchev, Hungary's Janos Kadar and Albania's Mehmet Shehu...