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...target now is to have one campus completed by June 1972, when this year's class graduates, and construction is expected to cost some $40 million over 3 or 4 years. The college hopes, if funds allow, to be able to build another branch as part of a "new town" in Fort Lincoln Park in the Northeast ghetto. The main site is to be in Mount Vernon Square, which is in the middle of a predominately black district in downtown Washington...
...that may prove to be mistakes-or that, at least, his opponents can exploit as mistakes. There is no sign, so far, that they are anywhere near important enough to destroy Nixon's commanding lead, but they are giving Hubert Humphrey his first real opportunity to try to build a cumulative attack on his Republican rival...
...votes (out of 254,319). He has since sought to ensure his popularity by fighting for stable farm prices and greater investment by industry to stem the drain of young people from rural areas. At the same time, he defended his wide-ranging involvement with broader concerns "We cannot build a wall around South Dakota and not take notice of what is going on in the cities," he explained. "A Senator who alienates urban opinion is of no value anymore. My job is to convince an urban-oriented Congress of the importance of stopping the decline of rural America...
...Peking, Taiwan's rival, currently offers assistance to 24 countries, with at least 1,000 technicians and a host of laborers. But there is a difference in approach. The Communists lean toward large prestige projects, such as their effort to build a railway linking Tanzania and Zambia, and because of the size of such projects, often fall behind. They also insist on sending hordes of their own laborers; the men from Taiwan prefer maximal participation by the host country. The Nationalists deny that political dividends are their main objective. But Vanguard's efforts quite clearly have a bearing...
...corpsmen now serve abroad) is unlikely to supply the demand for activists. There are other sources in U.S. institutions-families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every teen-ager against physical hardships that build self-confidence, as in t country's several Outward Bound camps, which put boys through summer survival courses. If draft laws are ever changed, dropping out for useful social action would do wonders for jaded collegians. If more U.S. corporations imitated the smartest ones, thousands of executives woi get periodic leaves...