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...despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
...pressure on Moscow to bring about negotiations and simultaneously to widen the split in the Communist camp, Johnson sent Ambassador Harriman to Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and even Soviet-oriented Egypt. With the increased escalation of the war, the Vietnamese Communists find themselves increasingly dependent on the Russians for advanced military and economic aid. The Russians thus can increase their influence in Hanoi either by sending more rockets or by bringing about a negotiated settlement. Johnson's diplomatic initiative is aimed at strengthening the latter possibility...
...horizontal thrust of the plan. But in raising the 28-story administration building as a sort of campanile, he also made it a showcase for structural technology. Since Netsch could take advantage of the decreasing loads the columns had to bear as the building rose, he was able to widen the floors toward the top without thickening the supports...
...University takes obvious risks in appointing a visitor from the "real world" as master of a House or College. The mastership is traditionally a link between faculty and students; a non-academic may merely widen the gap. His appointment could antagonize the faculty and make it more difficult to find masters in the future by convincing them that the university can always find acceptable men in the ranks of non-educators. Men of unique and outstanding ability like Hersey will not usually be willing to take on the responsibilities of running a dormitory. And the university might always pick...
...Congress should widen the scope of the fair-employment section of the 1946 Civil Rights Act to include public employees. This would be aimed particularly at integrating employment in state courts and police forces. Congress could base such a law on its power to enforce the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...