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...prospects for the lessening of discrimination are brightening. A federal law banning sex bias in the granting of credit goes into effect next week, and last week the Federal Reserve Board published rules for enforcing it that are tougher than many creditors would have liked. Also last week a movement by women to organize their own banks and credit unions gained momentum when the long-delayed First Women's Bank opened in New York...
Coach John McCarthy said after the meet yesterday, "Thal is a much stronger player this year. She's a lot tougher mentally...
...Arias' government will come into question. "As you can see," admitted an aide to the Premier last week, "matters are not under control." Indeed, at a pro-Franco rally in Valencia, only one speaker mentioned the Premier. Unless Arias can contain the terror, Spanish rightists will demand a tougher anti-reform government-perhaps even a military regime...
...themselves that their liberties would be in jeopardy if their weapons were removed or even registered. For a variety of historical reasons, they care more passionately about keeping their guns than other Americans care about disarming them. Though polls indicate that 64% of the public favors some kind of tougher Federal restrictions on guns, these people do not carry the political weight of the determined and well-organized gun supporters. They have proved that they will punish a politician if he so much as mentions gun control, and they have shown that they can defeat...
...pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...