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...denounced the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...
President Johnson produced a foreign aid program last week that was as elaborately hedged as an Italian garden. It included bookkeeping dodges to make the price appear low, legislative innovations to soothe the Senate, new ideas to succor the hungry, sick and ignorant, and tightened controls to mollify at least some of the critics who regard all foreign aid as a colossal boondoggle. For the most part, it made sense...
...speeches, he handles his lines with flair, particularly when he drags himself away from Liz's shack into the clean, cool air to intone sonorously: "Oh God, allow me some small remembrance of honor." The drabber phrases fall to Eva Marie Saint as the wife, whose patience and succor are apt to take such forms as "Thinking is almost always a kind of prayer...
...major works." In the center is the seated figure of "Fate itself" To Fate's left stands Mother Earth clutching the racked body of a man-"the man child returning to its eternal mother," Epstein explained. And the right is the compassionate Christ offering succor to crumpled humanity...
...land of the good Samaritan, it has been UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) that has met the stranger on the road to Jericho and given him succor-or, in modern specifications, emergency medical treatment, food, clothing and shelter. For ten years, since the end of the Israeli war in 1949, UNRWA has been helping support 1,000,000 Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis...