The Week

• The Office of Economic Opportunity has approved an expenditure of $2 million on rat control in Chicago. They fink big in Chicago.

• Republicans on Capitol Hill were so incensed by the bias of a recent NBC poll that Rep. Gerald Ford, House Minority Leader, and Rep. Bob Wilson, chairman of the GOP Congressional Committee, privately urged their colleagues not to respond—or to protest the bias if they did respond. NBC queried all members of Congress and delegates to the 1964 Republican and Democratic national conventions for its April 20 TV program on “political attitudes, your Party’s position and your own position toward current issues.” On the proposal that the Federal Government protect civil rights workers in the South, NBC asked: “One of the organizations working in the South and asking for the federal law is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee . . . SNCC. One of the organizations which think that a federal law is unnecessary is the White Citizens Council. Do you agree or disagree that: a federal law to protect civil rights workers should be put into effect?” And: “There have been arguments recently as to whether the Supreme Court has gone too far in protecting the rights of the individual at the expense of society in general. One of the consistent defenders of the Court is the organization Americans for Democratic Action. One of the groups in disagreement with the Court’s action has been the John Birch Society. Do you agree or disagree that: the Court’s actions concerning individual rights have been correct?”

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• The Office of Economic Opportunity has approved an expenditure of $2 million on rat control in Chicago. They fink big in Chicago.

• Republicans on Capitol Hill were so incensed by the bias of a recent NBC poll that Rep. Gerald Ford, House Minority Leader, and Rep. Bob Wilson, chairman of the GOP Congressional Committee, privately urged their colleagues not to respond—or to protest the bias if they did respond. NBC queried all members of Congress and delegates to the 1964 Republican and Democratic national conventions for its April 20 TV program on “political attitudes, your Party’s position and your own position toward current issues.” On the proposal that the Federal Government protect civil rights workers in the South, NBC asked: “One of the organizations working in the South and asking for the federal law is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee . . . SNCC. One of the organizations which think that a federal law is unnecessary is the White Citizens Council. Do you agree or disagree that: a federal law to protect civil rights workers should be put into effect?” And: “There have been arguments recently as to whether the Supreme Court has gone too far in protecting the rights of the individual at the expense of society in general. One of the consistent defenders of the Court is the organization Americans for Democratic Action. One of the groups in disagreement with the Court’s action has been the John Birch Society. Do you agree or disagree that: the Court’s actions concerning individual rights have been correct?”