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...only in menial positions. Observation of the numbers of Negroes the company had in various jobs, and informal conversations held by white CORE members with supervisors, revealed that although it kept no records of numbers of Negroes hired (in concurrence with Fair Practices Laws), the company indeed had a tacit policy of not hiring or promoting Negroes to either clerical or public relations jobs of any kind...
...after heavily reinforced police had put a moat of barbed wire around Checkpoint Charlie and arrested 128 troublemakers. The Soviet guard faced trouble of a different sort when its commander announced that it was going to drive to the war memorial in three armored personnel carriers, which by tacit agreement between U.S. and Soviet commandants enter each other's sector only if they do not display arms. When the Soviet guard showed up with submachine-gun-toting soldiers standing on the sides of the vehicles, General Watson insisted that they climb inside. After a 43-minute argument, the Russians...
...necessarily means a reasonable amount of money, but in this context money also connotes ability-if the man concerned had not made it him self, he would already be an In. A second requirement is a decent respect for manners and taste, of which the Old Guard remain the tacit custodians...
...that the prayer was sectarian, the schools' use of it jeopardized the students' right to freedom of religion. To a child, the school is the fountain of knowledge and source of authority. If the school favors or encourages a practice or belief, the child must make the tacit assumption that such schools' use practice of or such a belief is prayer is a "right." Thus misuse of the its position of authority and fosters, even in the nonparticipating child, a faith in the Tightness of the prayer...
...last week President Kennedy had the air of a man who hopes for the best-but expects something less. On one hand, he insisted that the recovery "has been a good one." and to bolster his point, cited a list of economic indicators at record levels. Then, in a tacit admission that he was just as disappointed in the economy's lack of zip as most businessmen, the President proceeded to promise that he would ask Congress for "an across-the-board reduction in personal and corporate income tax." effective...