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SUPER BOWL (CBS, 3 p.m. to conclusion). The champions of the N.F.L. v. the champions of the A.F.L., with a payoff differential of $15,000 against $7,500 per man riding on the outcome. Live from Miami...
Termites & Wine. When Liberian President William V. S. Tubman's sixth inauguration ceremony produced drowsy Monrovia's quadrennial traffic snarl, ambassadors fumed in their stalled limousines. But not Humphrey. Glowing in white tie, top hat and tails, he footed featly through the dust to get to the palace on time. Buses broke down bearing his entourage of 60 (including Wife Muriel, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a personal photographer, and an official in charge of "the box" of codes needed to respond to a thermonuclear war in case Lyndon Johnson should die). Soviet Diplomat Alexander Alexandrov found...
...schooling benefits. They enjoy slightly brighter job prospects than did their predecessors, largely because the U.S. economy is stronger than ever before. Last year the U.S. Employment Service found jobs for 1,200,000 veterans-many fresh home from Viet Nam; only 2.4% of all Vietvets are unemployed (v. 3.9% for the population as a whole...
Still, there is a great disparity on the employment scale between white and Negro returnees, best reflected by the fact that only 18% of whites re-enlist v. 46% of Negroes. Clearly, many Negroes feel that military service gives them greater opportunity (coupled with less discrimination) than civilian life...
...ways, the bill's supporters are whipping a dead horse. Present public opinion will not tolerate another full-scale McCarthy witchhunt. The Supreme Court has constantly cut down measures that impair basic freedoms under the nebulous guise of searching for "subversives." Only last month, the Court ruled in U.S. v. Eugene Robel that the Government cannot fire a man in a defense plant just because he is a member of the Communist Party; he must constitute a clear and present danger. Also Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a well-known civil libertarian, will be reluctant to start proceedings with the SACB...