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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bishop James A. Pike, for his 20th century pilgrimage in a search and battle for historical and theological truth v. the superstition and paganism of the Middle Ages...
Inexact & Erratic. The Gallup Poll, oldest of the national polls, reported that L.B.J.'s "popularity has risen from his October low" and that 48% of the people now approve of him, v. 44% in October. (In New York State, a recent survey by Pollster John Kraft showed that more New Yorkers said they liked Johnson (66%) than said they liked Bobby Kennedy (56%). That was news calculated to help the President recuperate, but the pollsters did not stop there. Pollster Lou Harris weighed in with quite a contrary finding: "Confidence in the overall job the President is doing...
With a major round of new contracts coming up in 1967, labor is sure to try to top the estimated average settlement of 4.5% that it made in 1966 (v. the 3.2% guideposts, which have since been unofficially upped to 5%). Demands are already being heard for legislation to deal with any resulting strikes against the public interest-promised, but never delivered, by President Johnson this year. Last week Floyd D. Hall, president of Eastern Air Lines, asked in a Detroit speech: "Is there no other way to settle our differences than by open conflict that injures those who have...
This time, some undergraduates have been appointed to meet with Cavanaugh because they are specially qualified in urban affairs, Sanford V. Levinson, tutor in government, said yesterday...
While President Mobutu celebrated the first anniversary of his military regime in the Congo last week, everyone showed a special interest in his highest-ranking official guest, King Ntare V, 19, of neighboring Burundi. At a round of parties, guests wondered openly how the shy boy King would fare in Maryland-sized, blood-torn Burundi, from which he only last July ousted his own royal father...