Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...islanders want only one thing that phosphate cannot buy: independence. However, as Chief deRoburt de parted for Manhattan last week to report to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, Australian Territories Minister Charles Barnes conceded cautiously that as a first step toward sovereignty for the island, his government will draft a Nauruan constitution; next January the first Nauruan Parliament will convene. If Nauru proves ready for self-government, Barnes says elliptically, "Further discussions will take place regarding the possibility of further political progress." In other words, it is only a matter of time before Nauruans will be independent-provided the Australian government...
That dilemma was posed in Washington last week at the first National Conference on Law and Poverty, attended by 500 U.S. jurists and lawyers. President Johnson's anti-poverty administrators suggested that lawyers should step in and help the poverty program by seeing to it that the poor are given a fair shake by everybody from slumlords to loan sharks. Said Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach: Lawyers' ethical standards "have served us well and will continue to do so, but I cannot believe their purpose is to prevent legal services from being offered to individuals who desperately need them...
...mainland will carry some 500,000 passengers, 90,000 automobiles and 10,000 trucks; during a busy weekend as many as 200 private or commercial planes will land with passengers. But the "in" way to arrive on the island ?the only way for some?is to step down from your own Beechcraft, or to drop the hook from your boat in Edgartown Harbor...
...file." Ditches and water hazards bisected twelve of the 18 holes-to say nothing of 74 sand traps, 6-in.-deep Bermuda rough, and the big, slick greens. Complained one golfer: "It's like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the fourth step...
...Vital First Step." Delta Ministry officials argue that no reconciliation is possible until the Negroes have the means to take charge of their own destiny. "We are not a conduit between the Negro and the white communities," says Rev. Arthur C. Thomas, director of the ministry. "We are trying to enable the two groups to come together with dignity and respect for one another. What's needed now is the vital first step-building up the Negro community so that the two can come together in this manner...