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Even the Unions. The march made irreversible all that had gone before in the year of the Negro revolution. In that year, the Negroes made more gains than they had achieved in any year since the end of the Civil War. A speedup in school integration in the South brought to 1,141 the number of desegregated school districts. In the North, city after city re-examined de facto school segregation and set up plans to redress the balance. In 300 cities in the South, public facilities-from swimming pools to restaurants-were integrated, and in scores of cities across...
...Rejected, by an ll-to-4 vote in the Senate Finance Committee, a motion by Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas calling for a speedup in committee hearings on the Administration's $11.1 billion tax-cut bill. Douglas, who asked that hearings begin this week and be limited to four weeks, cried that the motion's defeat was a "crushing blow" to the tax measure. Other Senators thought that the motion had been no more to begin with than an ill-conceived effort to pressure Finance Chairman Harry Byrd and an affront to the chairman's traditional prerogative...
...intended to bring quick success in 1) building a pure Communist state, and 2) making China over into a first-class world power. Instead, the Leap's frenzied mobilization of peasants into communes, the setting up of backyard blast furnaces, and the 24-hour-a-day speedup...
...Wrong Business." Wilkins predicted that "There will be no racial peace in the nation, in the South or in the North, until segregation and inequality are gone." The Negro timetable calls for a speedup in the integration process, and the N.A.A.C.P. intends to expand and intensify its efforts on all fronts. "The slow pace heretofore and the brazen cheating that has gone on in schooling, voting and employment especially, have forced the Negro to demand acceleration and still more acceleration . . . Law-enforcement officers will have to bring extra measures of understanding and restraint to this situation...
...speedup was to get the vaccines into doctors' hypodermic syringes in time for the March-through-May period when measles outbreaks come to a peak...