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...figured in all Harding's political campaigns, becoming most intense in the Presidential campaign of 1920. The recent freshet of scholarship on Harding has sifted and resifted the evidence. In the process a substantial amount has been clarified and some of it rightly dismissed; but there remains plenty to buttress the claim, and the matter is by no means resolved. Harding himself didn't know whether he really had some Negro blood or not; and he is reported commenting to a friend. "How should I know? One of my ancestors might have jumped the fence...
...buttress this prediction, he tries to show that it will become increasingly true over time. Essential to the success of this argument is the astounding assumption that America is becoming more equal socially. He ignores all evidence that points to the continuing social stratification, increasing inequities in income distribution, and stagnant social mobility. Herrnstein forces this view to show that if America does become more equal (if the liberal ideal is established) then heredity will become an even bigger factor in determining I.Q. since the environment would become similar for everyone. While he claims to be disturbed by his findings...
JAPAN. Washington spokesmen buttress their complaints about Common Market protectionism by emphasizing Japan's failure to build a sizable European export market. The U.S. is trying to persuade the Europeans to buy more Japanese goods, figuring that the Japanese would then ease their selling pressure in the U.S. Last year the U.S. took 30.7% of Japan's exports, while the Common Market countries took only 6.7%. Japan sold fewer than 35,000 cars in the Common Market Six last year, only 400 in West Germany. In electronics and textiles, too, the Japanese meet stiff resistance. According...
...buttress their case, exobiologists have exposed microorganisms to simulated Martian environments (carbon dioxide, extreme cold, small amounts of water) in so-called "Mars jars." Some of the bugs readily adapted to the Martian conditions. For this reason, Western scientists were all the more concerned last week that the Russian lander might, if not completely sterilized, introduce earthly life forms to Mars...
...finally, the organization will have to help rekindle the student movement. The experience of the sixties teaches one lesson above all: universities are not idyllic places removed from conflict, but play a key role in generating ideology and providing personnel and technical expertise to buttress the American corporate state and empire. Universities are centers of conflict; NAM will have to involve students so that conflict can be continued and new generations of students educated...