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...Civil Rights Act last June, Congress stipulated that Title VII-the Equal Employment Opportunity section, which forbids discrimination in hiring and firing-was not to become law before the nation had a twelve-month period to study it. Last week Title VII finally went into effect. Hopefully the yearlong study period will pay off, for the new law is one of the most complex collections of dos and don'ts passed by Congress in many a stormy session...
Ecuador's Galo Plaza, U.N. mediator for Cyprus, once described himself as a pathological optimist. He was employing no such label last week, as he presented the results of a yearlong study of the labyrinthine Cyprus problem...
...most big dailies, the real estate editor ranks somewhat below the writer who covers high school sports; his main function is to supply a few columns of editorial top-dressing for the real estate ads. Albert Jedlicka of the Chicago. Daily News is a glittering exception. With a yearlong, still-continuing series of stories in the tradition of the hard-digging reporter-detective, Jedlicka has played a major role in exposing a mortgage-financing scandal that has rocked the Chicago real estate and building industries (see U.S. BUSINESS...
Historic Drop. The sweeping U.S. money-policy change climaxed a yearlong backstairs dispute in Washington and represented a victory by Walter Heller's activist Council of Economic Advisers over the more conservative Treasury. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon has been worried that even in direct controls on capital movements might cause foreigners to fear that stiffer controls were coming, and thus precipitate a run on the dollar. Under Secretary Robert Roosa was opposed to any U.S. drawing from the IMF. The Treasury learned only recently that it had lost the battle inside the Administration, was given the job of drafting...
Sense-Making Objectives. The yearlong re-examination was reflected last week in President Kennedy's foreign aid message to Congress. Heeding the Clay committee, he trimmed his request for new aid funds from $4.9 billion to $4.5 billion. And he set forth sense-making objectives...