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Wilson was also saddled with the need to find a successor for Gordon Walker. Trouble was, Labor had no one else with real stature in international affairs. So Wilson had to turn to a man who was a familiar figure among Labor experts, but who was unknown in the diplomatic salons of the world. He was Michael Stewart, 58, a Labor M.P. since 1945, who last October was Harold Wilson's choice as Minister of Science and Education...
...therefore cannot learn to talk. At least one baby in every thousand is born with no apparent capacity for hearing; he is "deaf and dumb." But so-called congenital deaf-mutism is actually a misnomer because inborn defects of the vocal cords that make speech impossible are almost unknown. The real trouble is in the hearing mechanism. The vocal difficulty is almost inevitable because children judged to be beyond the help of any hearing aid are often sent to special schools where the emphasis may be on lip reading and sign language. Their own voices may never develop intelligible sounds...
...York City is, among other things, a small welfare state. It carries no less than 500,000 people on its welfare rolls-a number roughly equal to the whole population of Denver-ranging from homeless children to the helpless aged to mothers of large broods with absent and often unknown fathers. To support these people the city spends more than $1,100,000 every day in funds contributed by the federal, state and city governments. A hardy local economy scarcely benefits these chronically poor; instead of decreasing, the list of welfare cases grows by about 200 names...
...meeting held in Tutzing, Germany, last August. There were quiet complaints even then about Rodger, a scholarly theologian who has been on the council's staff, as head of its Faith and Order Department, only since 1961. He is well liked in Western ecumenical circles but virtually unknown to Orthodoxy and the "new churches" of Asia and Africa, which are playing an increasingly important role in the council. Surprised by last August's action were Visser 't Hooft, who was not consulted, and Rodger himself, who was given 24 hours to decide whether he would accept...
...Walton agreed that there are men of greater eminence in American architecture. "We weren't running a kind of contest for the greatest architect in America," he explained. "We wanted the man who would do best by this one building. It isn't as though we'd picked an unknown, but the choice was a gamble of sorts, a hedged gamble. The hedge, of course, is the work he's already done...