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...context of a war that has none of the clear-cut aspects of Pearl Harbor, at a time when the country's internal problems are being examined with unprecedented intensity and emotion, and under a President who, despite all his efforts, has not been able to stir fervor in the hearts of his countrymen...
...purpose of PBL, says Executive Director Av Westin, is "to stir things up, to challenge the status quo of both commercial and educational television...
Even that sally failed to stir much interest because Nunn for months has been making only moderate noises on racial questions. So negative has the contest become that unqualified partisans are difficult to find. One Kentucky Republican who has given Nunn tepid support complains: "They're either against Nunn because of something he said against Catholics or Jews in the primary, or they're against Ward because they don't like Breathitt or Johnson." The Louisville Courier-Journal endorsed Ward, but faulted him for me-tooing Nunn's positions opposing a state open-housing...
...problem and the most controversial one remains what is to be done for the non-white subjects currently living in Britain. The issue now is open housing, and it is not certain whether the Labor Party can count on Conservative support to pass a bill which will undoubtedly stir up a hornets' nest of emotions. Unlike in this country, there is hope in Britain that the problem can be mastered. "We have great advantages (over America)," the Race Relations Board stated in their yearly report. "Our colored population has arrived here far more recently and patterns of behaviour both among...
...measures that have been suggested so far can be anything but arbitrary, unjust, and offensive. Punishing a handful of randomly selected scapegoats will stir, not deter, rancorous anti-University protests. It will weaken, not encourage, respect for the rules. Most important, it would simply be unreasonable, and there is no compelling reason for the University to rush headlong now into harsh action...