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...longer to be subordinate-not necessarily. The national effort to give blacks a more equitable share of the nation's goods and benefits has had results-uneven but undeniable. Increasingly, blacks are seen in offices of corporations and banks, in classrooms of elite colleges, in officers' clubs, affluent suburbs, theaters, tourist haunts. Says Daniel C. Thompson, chairman of the sociology department at New Orleans' predominantly black Dillard University: "Being black and qualified is the most valuable commodity in American society...
Then, in late November, two tragedies occurred in one week, which highlighted the urgency of the matter. Ethel P. Higonnet, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, was shot and killed while walking past Longfellow Park on affluent Brattle Street, one block from her home. She had been the victim of an attempted rape. Shortly afterward, a Harvard secretary, Barbara Brown, was assaulted and struck in the face by a hurled brick while returning from work. Both incidents had taken place in early evening...
...victory, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing will bring a new generation into French political life. He is a modern practitioner of politics who wants to lay to rest the long cold civil war between the French left and right. To succeed, Giscard must persuade the other, less affluent half of France to follow him on his promised new course...
Since the middle of the 19th century, France has been not one but two countries: the affluent and the poor. Today it is still a country divided by income, class and ideology, as the closely fought presidential election graphically demonstrated. Yet the two Frances are linked by a common materialistic concern: the bourgeoisie is intent on keeping the life-style that money allows, while the poor are hoping for a larger share of the nation's growing wealth. Last week TIME Correspondent Paul Ress interviewed two French families, one headed by a struggling Norman truck driver, the other...
...said that the "two-tier" admission system created inequities in admission that favored affluent students...