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...chill on relations with the U.S., they do so with more military muscle than ever before. Moscow has not only been rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, it has also increased its conventional forces so that it is today questionable whether NATO troops would be able to thwart a Russian thrust into Central Europe...
...Thrust. The four open meetings were intended to cover only districts where desegregation was working -in order to determine why it had worked-while the 29 case studies were to be divided among those districts where there had been no progress, moderate progress, and substantial progress. Yet, in the end, only three of the districts chosen fell into the first category...
Alexander Calder's timing was never off. On the face of it, the best death an artist could have is to perish laden with age and honors yet still working, and at a time when he is thrust anew into the public eye through a large and deservedly popular exhibition of 50 years of his work. Such was the context of Calder's death last week, from a heart attack, at the age of 78. The flag on New York's Whitney Museum, where his show of more than 200 works had opened in October (TIME...
...Immediately-so that we can start ma-ing plans. I would like Congress to direct the President to reorganize the Executive Branch, subject to subsequent veto of the Congress on individual proposals. This would give tremendous substance to the whole thrust-you could go into a department and say, "This is what we want to do now. The law says it must be done, and I'm the President and I'm carrying out Congress's directives and my own commitment to the American people...
...assistant director of the Boston OCR said last week that the report, which is now on his desk, is unacceptable, because it does not reflect a verbal report he received from its authors earlier this year. With this disclosure, the future of the report is further thrust into doubt...