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...issues of Civil Rights, automation and the political role of labor has been one of retreat. Realizing that a passive labor movement is a respectable one, he has done all he can for the respectability of American unions. He is running for re-election next month, and nothing could strengthen organized labor more than his defeat...
...their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern Scholar Willard Hanna, "that one stumble might lead to disaster. The miracle is that so far no one has stumbled...
...exchange reserves have risen by $42.5 million in the past nine weeks. Gold production, the country's most important industry, is booming. The blacks are cowed and quiet, their leaders driven deep underground or into the safety of emigration. All the while, Verwoerd is implementing measures to further strengthen his government and deepen the entrenchment of his apartheid policies. Among his latest steps...
Stepping up the tempo of his Administration's action on the Berlin crisis, President Kennedy last week asked the Congress and the nation to strengthen, beyond doubt, the already powerful U.S. military machine. At the same time, Administration strategists sought to seize the diplomatic initiative, in an all-out effort to preserve-beyond doubt-the freedom of the non-Communist world...
Under the watchful eye of Tennessee State's Track Coach Willie Stevens, Boston plunged last year into a 90-minute-daily practice ritual that included high jumping (to strengthen his legs) and hurdling (to keep his body muscles limber). He patterned his jumping style after that of 1956 Olympic Champion Greg Bell. "The technique I use," says Boston, "is called 'walking in the air.' It is just like running in the air. I take three and a half steps in the air before I land." He practiced stretching his arms high above his head to force...