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• This week’s solution to the problem of reforming the divorce laws: ban marriage.

• Senator Dirksen and his crew entered the 14 (b) fight this year with reinforced firepower: a nationwide poll by Opinion Research Corp. showing the U.S. public against compulsory union membership by margins ranging from 58 to 70 per cent, depending on the aspect of the question. Right-to-work laws are favored by 62 per cent of whites, 55 per cent of Negroes, 49 per cent with eighth-grade schooling or less, 64 per cent of high school grads, 44 per cent of union families, 56 per cent of Democrats, 66 per cent of independents, 72 per cent of Republicans, and between 60 and 64 per cent from North Central and Western to Northeast and Southern. Slice it as you will, repeal of 14 (b) is about the worst politics of ’66. Dirksen & Co. had a sure thing.

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• This week’s solution to the problem of reforming the divorce laws: ban marriage.

• Senator Dirksen and his crew entered the 14 (b) fight this year with reinforced firepower: a nationwide poll by Opinion Research Corp. showing the U.S. public against compulsory union membership by margins ranging from 58 to 70 per cent, depending on the aspect of the question. Right-to-work laws are favored by 62 per cent of whites, 55 per cent of Negroes, 49 per cent with eighth-grade schooling or less, 64 per cent of high school grads, 44 per cent of union families, 56 per cent of Democrats, 66 per cent of independents, 72 per cent of Republicans, and between 60 and 64 per cent from North Central and Western to Northeast and Southern. Slice it as you will, repeal of 14 (b) is about the worst politics of ’66. Dirksen & Co. had a sure thing.