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...central thrust of the report of the National Advisory Council on Education of Disadvantaged Children [Dec. 9] is to praise federally sponsored summer school programs and to recommend strongly their continuation. In pur role as constructive critic, the council reported those aspects of the total program comment could lead to constructive change. Naturally, these are the areas where problems exist. Your readers should know that we stated that "dollars thoughtfully expended on summer schools may be the most productive dollars spent by Title...
...might cause trouble for Sato in next year's national elections. Though the government's Socialist and Communist opposition is badly split as well, a Liberal Democratic rift could endanger the party's 20 years of postwar rule. To blunt the edge of Fujiyama's thrust, Sato last week promised "sweeping Cabinet reforms" of his own as soon as the party election is past...
...when the press is surfeited with armchair experts, the column's striking success can be traced to its emphasis on reporting rather than punditry. "Fresh fact is our thrust," says Evans. And often enough, the two men have uncovered facts that no one else put in print. They were the first to disclose that a member of California's John Birch Society had joined the prestigious "President's Club" and that he and his family had contributed $12,000 to the Democratic Party. After the column appeared, Democratic leaders in California forced the national committee to return...
Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes." Last week, as the party gathered in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier for its regular convention, Tory dissidents were trying their best to close...
...this the end of the Diet? No one was prepared to count him out. For one thing, the divided Tories had no one better-including Camp-to thrust onto the hustings if a new election were suddenly called. Aware of this, Diefenbaker was hardly inclined to quit. "Fight on, my men," he urged his supporters, recalling a medieval English ballad. "I am wounded, but I am not slain. I'll lay me down and rest a while, and then I'll rise and fight again...