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...being ignored. The present Minister of Education, Patrick Gordon Walker, came to his post as an expert on remedial reading. Walker has even devised a phonetic spelling system which would make the language much easier for the foreigner. In Cambridge there are a number of schools experimenting with various new approaches to the task of bringing immigrant children...
...legislative action. And so far, both parties have strained to keep the issue out of the political arena. The truce has been productive. The '65 Race Relations bill was passed with little difficulty, and it was also possible to set up a number of committees to deal with various aspects of the issue...
Among the openly subversive groups are the U.S. Communist Party, the Maoist Progressive Labor Party, various Black Power groups such as S.N.C.C., RAM and shaven-skulled Ron Karenga's Los Angeles-based US, plus the volatile cadres of the New Left, which are so concerned with internal disputes that some of their organizations cannot remain in existence for more than a month at a time. Unsophisticated pacifist or antidraft outfits and digger do-gooders from the hippie subculture are frequently suckered into the hard-line camp and end up unwittingly propagandizing as activists...
During the next six months scientists wil be analyzing the correlations between solar disturbances (sunspots, for instance), temperature changes, and the presence or absence of various elements...
However, even at that time, Moynihan and Nash emphasized that their primary interest was not the Inner Belt per se, but rather the entire procedure by which the government chooses highway routes. They even declined to answer questions about the merits of the various Inner Belt routes...