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...Conference wishes to encourage the Bureau of the Census to explore more flexible personnel procedures from the standpoint first, of enlarging the number of people who can be located to serve usefully as regular enumerators and, second, to employ people in various auxiliary roles to help insure completeness of count...
...dean of Washington's Catholic University of America from 1949 to 1957 and one of the nation's leading interpreters of moral theology, who never hesitated to articulate his often controversial views, be it on the World War II atomic bombing of Japan ("from an ethical standpoint-simply murder"), court-ordered sterilization ("totalitarian, unAmerican, and irreligious"), or smoking (one pack a day is all right, two packs is a sin); of heart disease; in Washington...
...pursue his 1968 presidential ambitions-though, Lurleen suggested, there might be a slight change of style in Montgomery. "It will be an attitude," said Lurleen, "reflecting an inner feeling of a wife and a mother. I shall be inclined to examine programs of each of our departments from the standpoint of how they affect the family...
From a practical standpoint, the trade that sent the Los Angeles Angels' star pitcher, Dean Chance, to the Minnesota Twins didn't make very much sense either-except for the Twins. The most sense was made by the New York Yankees, whose motive was money...
...year slump: its U.S. auto sales were down 20% , to 272,000 cars, against an average 4% for the Big Three. Gamely, the company found reassurance in the fact that the deficit was "substantially lower than anticipated." Said President Roy Abernethy: "We've reached the bottom, from the standpoint of the current slide." Possibly - although, despite high hopes for its jazzed-up '67 models, mid-November A.M.C. sales ran 13.5% below the same period last year. Apparently trimming his own expectations a bit, Chairman Evans declared that "there is absolutely no possibility that A.M.C. might not survive...