Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states are thus assured a role as arenas for political combat. The Democratics in the legislatures can go on sniping at the Republican governors, who can go on winning elections with the help of heavy advertising and good-guy images. But meanwhile the states are missing the opportunity to initiate new programs to attack the still-unsolved problems of the poverty cycle, education, mass transit, and housing segregation. The money will be there. as the Vietnam war overheats the economy, most state revenues will continue to rapidly without new taxes. Present levels of spending on education can be maintained...
...that the effort requires at least $15 billion a year, roughly ten times what Johnson has been spending. Not to be outdone, a group of New York civil rights leaders has demanded an appropriation of $41.6 billion a year -more than one-third of the entire national budget-to combat poverty over the next five years...
Senator J. William Fulbright is fortunate enough to have been spared the loneliness of combat, the overcolored dreams of love and liberty that help preserve men's sanity in the mind-gnawing dullness of war. And despite his obsession with South Viet Nam, Fulbright has yet to take in that scene or see for himself how his fellow Americans deport themselves there in battle and away from it. Still, the junior Senator from Arkansas last week pursued his "power-is-arrogance" thesis with the momentous intelligence that for the fighting man, nocturnal sports are not confined to pingpong...
Ronald L. Trosper's interview with Wilson on the problems of "The President and the Bureaucracy" is necessary reading if only because of the recent criticism of the anti-poverty program. Wilson doubts that the government can effectively man organizations to combat discrimination and poverty or solve problems of urban affairs...
...troubles with teaching stem from healthy causes. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt formed his New Deal brain trust, professors have been leaping down from their ivory towers to grapple with the earthly day-to-day problems of government and business. Their expertise is suddenly in demand to combat urban blight in Boston, famine in Bombay. "At any one given time," quips University of Chicago Dean Wayne Booth, "a first-class university has at least 10% of its professors in airplanes." Federal money devoted to research projects has multiplied 200 times since 1940, from $74 million to about $15 billion annually...