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Outmoded System. The amendments affect the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (A.F.D.C.), the largest category of relief financed by federal, state and local funds. They require each state to determine the proportion of its children receiving such benefits as of this month and to limit the use of federal money in the future to this fraction. Because the poor bear more children than the affluent, the proportion of needy minors is estimated to be increasing from 4.7% now to 5% in 1970. Therefore states will either have to make eligibility rules more stringent, reduce the load by other...
Named with the baby doctor for "conspiring to counsel, aid and abet" young men to evade service in the armed forces were four other antiwarriors: Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 43, long an activist in civil rights and antiwar causes; Brooklyn-born Novelist-Polemicist Mitchell Goodman, 44, who broke up last year's National Book Awards ceremony by shouting "We are burning children in Viet Nam"; former White House Disarmament Aide Marcus Raskin, 33, who now serves as co-director of a Washington research organization; and Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student and peace preacher...
...drive to create a new monetary system that will, in time, loosen the world's umbilical ties to gold. From the American viewpoint, the current system unfairly penalizes the U.S. because it has run up deficits doing things that benefit the world, such as spending for foreign aid and tourism, lending and investing in capital-short areas. Thus, any new system has to provide a liberal and flexible credit window for tiding over countries with justifiable deficits. Most important, the system has to be one that eases the world shortage of monetary reserves and makes nations less dependent...
...added that the financial aid office would raise scholarships to compensate for the proposed charges, if the Committee on Houses approves the plan...
...important, the HUC and HPC must become relevant to students' needs. This implies: 1) involvement with more issues that affect students, 2) recognition by the faculty in terms of a meaningful role in the decision-making process, and 3) incentive (e.g., better educational experience, interesting issues, academic credit, scholarship aid to compensate for foregone earnings, summer jobs at Harvard, respect) so that hard-working and intelligent students will participate...