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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consensus v. Challenge." Neither a political conservative nor a dogmatic states-righter, Burns, a history professor at Williams College and sometime adviser to John Kennedy, sees much that is good and necessary in what has happened. Yet he fears its future implications, when what he calls the "corruption of consensus" may ultimately cause the Government to become "flabby and complacent and lose the cutting edge of energy, initiative and innovation." He predicts that "the passion will have disappeared, and increasingly the compulsion of purpose will be dissipated...
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach himself was both defendant and defense counsel. The court allotted eight hours-longest in memory-for oral arguments. Even Chief Justice Earl Warren was moved to note that the outcome of South Carolina v. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach would have "wide and profound implications in the life of our nation...
...Health Minister, and will probably stay on as Indira's. A woman is the chief minister of India's fourth largest state. And women are moving into more and more executive positions in Indian business and government. Today there are no fewer than 59 women in India's Parliament, v. only 12 in the U.S. Congress...
...declining sales, growing financial troubles and, most recently, an alarmingly oversized inventory. American now has 93 days' car production unsold, against a current industry average of 45 days. At the corporation's annual meeting next week, stockholders will hear about slightly lower sales ($991 million in 1965 v. $1 billion in 1964), greatly reduced earnings ($5,000,000 v. $26 million), and a shrinking share of the auto market (currently 3% v. a high of 6.42% four years ago). Detroit is seriously worried that unless the company does something drastic to restore its health, American Motors will...
When other companies moved in on the compact market with racy V-8 engines and bucket seats, A.M.C. was styled out. With growing national prosperity, the desire for compacts and economy faded. And for the small segment of buyers still primarily concerned with economy, high production costs make A.M.C. Americans $200 to $300 more expensive than throaty little Volkswagens. The Volks, though smaller and lighter than the American, outsells it better than 4 to 1 in the economy market, for which they compete...