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...urbanization and industrialization, writes Roche, Americans have more freedom today than ever before. Modern cities tolerate a multitude of opinions and muffle direct personal clashes. There is more legal protection of individual rights. "Even the Communists today," writes Roche, "exercise rights that lead the old Wobbly, Socialist, or trade-union organizer to smile condescendingly when the Daily Worker proclaims the existence of a 'reign of terror' in the United States...
Such a plan, however, has several difficulties, which Mendes chooses to ignore. One is the dominant role of the Communist Party in French labor. Long-time followers of a "hard" line, the French Communists would be unlikely to put the strength of their trade-union arm, the Confederation of Labor (CGT), strongly behind such a system, for fear of weakening their independent position. A second is France's highly complex and fluid corporate structure, a consequence of its late industrialization and as-yet-unreformed anachronisms in the agricultural sector. Until the gradual unification of a national market is complete, corporatism...
...votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead, the government suffered another set back. The progressive Conservative candidate, a popular lawyer, lost to his Laborite opponent, a trade-union official, by 4,955 votes, a Tory drop of 8.8% from the last general election...
...trumpet; he must never give the slightest inkling that presidential ambitions have entered his modest head. Instead, his friends quietly start the bandwagon rolling and set about persuading the party powers that their man is ready for the No. 1 spot. The leaders of the P.R.I.'s trade-union wing, the peasant branches, P.R.I.-dominated businessmen's associations, the party's lower-echelon bureaucracy are all consulted. A half-dozen or more names may flash before the public. At last, a central core of party chieftains, a few ex-Presidents with influence and, most important, Mexico...
Bride-to-be is Pamela Odede B.A. (as the wedding invitations call her), a recent scholarship graduate of Western College in Oxford, Ohio. Along with the willowy, ebony-skinned bride of 23, the young trade-union boss will acquire added political prestige, for Pamela is the daughter of Walter Odede, for years a prominent African nationalist and close associate of | the revered Jomo Kenyatta...