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...four minutes. Each spoke longer than that -notably the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, who is also a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and who clearly meant to convince the audience that he had had nothing to do with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s decision to withhold endorsement of the march...
...whose removal would speak louder than conference-table words." Similarly, argued Goldwater, let the Russians speak in Berlin. "They want this treaty. We want that wall to come down. Let the Wall come down, and the negotiation over this treaty might make some common sense. Let us try, and withhold our approval of the treaty until we have tried to get from the Soviet-here and now-demonstrations of their real intentions...
...American-made jets' flying into Communist China and the possibility of the Pakistan Airlines' stocking U.S.-made spare parts and maintenance gear in Shanghai and Canton. Until Pakistan demonstrates its "good faith" to Washington by finding a way out of the air agreement, the U.S. will withhold a $4,300,000 loan to modernize Dacca airport. In his own way, Troubleshooter Ball will have to rephrase the warning of a Western diplomat on the scene who said: "What began as a bit of flirtation could end with Pakistan getting seduced...
...also for various kinds of better schooling. The odds are 50-50 that New York's 1,000,000 pupils are about to enjoy the longest summer vacation of their lives. The Utah Education Association, representing 98% of Utah public school teachers, threatened all summer to "withhold services" unless the state legislature boosted all school spending. Last week the teachers gave in, accepting a $700 raise that had been offered all along, but they left a memorable impression of long-sustained militancy...
...Faculty Committee on Student Activities does indeed find that the membership clause, as interpreted by the leaders of the Association, is racially discriminatory, the Committee will still have to decide whether to grant or withhold University recognition. Recognition implies the right to use the Harvard name and to use Harvard facilities for public meetings...