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...that a man, leaving the small safety of his home in the morn ing, ran considerable risk of being robbed or assassinated by ruffians, or jailed or executed by his rulers, before he could return to it. And the home it self was a poor sanctuary from starva tion and disease, from pain and pri vation and death." Things are better now, even for the underprivileged, in much of the world. But it is a case of new stresses being substituted for old. Because there has been "an explosion of expectations," there will be "again a stressful period of adjusting...
Texas (25). Goldwater is the darling of Texas conservatives, and Texas' Republican Senator John Tower is a leader of the national Goldwater drive. But the national Democratic Administra tion has poured space-age industry into Texas, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, although perhaps not the power he once was in Texas, is still a hard man to beat in his home state. Kenne dy could easily beat any other G.O.P. candidate-but against Barry Goldwater, he can only be rated even...
...predawn meeting in the palace, the military chiefs arrested Bosch. They abolished the constitution, dissolved Congress, outlawed Communists and closed the schools. Out over the radio went a manifesto: "We have decided to intervene to put order to this chaos and to halt the deteriora tion to revolutionary Communism." Imbert then sent his police to round up all "subversives." By week's end some 500 people were in jail...
...opening night last week, some 300 people packed the West Auditorium in the Department of State building. First came a brief speech by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and an introduc tion by Ambassador Gutierrez. Then Conductor Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic introduced his pert blonde wife, Felicia Montealegre, a onetime Chilean actress. In English and Spanish, she recited from Chilean Bards Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, which left several of the ladies-and Bernstein-misty-eyed...
...reason is that school construc tion and the school budget are largely in the hands of the mayor, who holds down on school expenses to keep the rest of the city running. This leaves the school committee (Boston for "board") with reduced responsibility, but it keeps busy. Its five members are elected every two years and have long used the job as a springboard for higher office...