The Week

• “We think our culture is going through a sexual crisis,” said Dr. Mary Calderone, looking flushed, at the first meeting of the U.S. Sex Information and Education Council. “At such a moment of crisis,” she continued, “we think a strong group needs to stand up and . . .” and we stood up and, thinking of what was yet to come, walked into the cold night air.

• The longshoremen’s strike in our eastern and southern ports is costing the nation $25 million daily. All the processes of collective bargaining, private and governmental, have been exhausted. The contract agreed to by the shipping companies and the union officials, after many months of research and negotiating, is recognized by all in government, management and labor who had a hand in it as fantastic in the scale of money and benefits it provides. But the membership voted it down, because of its provision for gradually reducing the size of dock gangs from twenty to a still much larger than necessary seventeen. So the issue reverts to the bare exercise of power: the monopoly power seized piece by piece by the unions over three decades as the executive, the legislature, the courts, the companies and the community abdicated, piece by piece, their own power, their rights and responsibilities.

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• “We think our culture is going through a sexual crisis,” said Dr. Mary Calderone, looking flushed, at the first meeting of the U.S. Sex Information and Education Council. “At such a moment of crisis,” she continued, “we think a strong group needs to stand up and . . .” and we stood up and, thinking of what was yet to come, walked into the cold night air.

• The longshoremen’s strike in our eastern and southern ports is costing the nation $25 million daily. All the processes of collective bargaining, private and governmental, have been exhausted. The contract agreed to by the shipping companies and the union officials, after many months of research and negotiating, is recognized by all in government, management and labor who had a hand in it as fantastic in the scale of money and benefits it provides. But the membership voted it down, because of its provision for gradually reducing the size of dock gangs from twenty to a still much larger than necessary seventeen. So the issue reverts to the bare exercise of power: the monopoly power seized piece by piece by the unions over three decades as the executive, the legislature, the courts, the companies and the community abdicated, piece by piece, their own power, their rights and responsibilities.