Word: affluents
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Federal Impact. The most direct cause of the new shortage, ironically, is the sudden proliferation of federal programs designed to aid education. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, aimed mainly at helping kids from poor neighborhoods catch up to their more affluent peers, created 60,000 extra fulltime teaching jobs for this school year. These teachers are, of course, still teaching, and in tasks where the schools are weakest: small-class remedial work in the three Rs, guidance counseling, tutoring. But they leave vacancies in regular classrooms...
...society is more affluent than ever, profiting not only from the large contributions of anonymous wealthy donors but from a spate of its own activities. Its budget in 1964 was about $3,200,000; this year it will probably be in the neighborhood of $6,000,000. Last year the society's 360 "reading rooms" sold about $4,000,000 worth of materials. In addition to books and pamphlets, the society publishes a monthly magazine called American Opinion, a monthly newsletter and a weekly Review of the News. It runs a speaker's bureau that has a roster...
...face has adorned the $2 bill, but folks have never really warmed up to the twosies. In the days of freewheeling ward politics, a $2 bill was often taken as a sign of a bought vote; shopkeepers found them increasingly bothersome to handle; and in today's affluent society the horse players are betting $5 more often than $2. Last year the U.S. Treasury stopped printing $2 bills, started gathering in the $115.5 million worth outstanding, and last week announced that the two will be allowed to disappear. Jefferson has one small comfort; he still has a nickel...
...That an affluent and supposedly humane society can tolerate inequality of opportunity resulting in illiteracy and joblessness is an American tragedy. That "democracy" of the marketplace in housing virtually excludes Negroes is equally tragic. Not until America can organize its technological society to allow all individuals to flourish will the "American Way" have its fullest impact...
...Tammany has a West Campus as well as a rival East Campus, the latter occupied by the Nikolayans (Soviets), who are Founderless. Life on West Campus is regulated and dominated by a computer, WESCAC, which is challenged by its twin, EASCAC, the deity of East Campus. Campus life is affluent and almost totally permissive, but pocked by student riots (wars). Under the shadow of EAT-ray (nuclear destruction), the campus is haunted by death and doubt, trembles on the edge of a new revelation. Some students seek revelation through existentialism, sex or student-unionism (Communism...