Word: concerns
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...redwood forests of Northern California. Yet, because of their commercial potential, conservationists have had to fight to preserve them. Only last month they beat off-for the time being-an Administration attempt to build two dams that would have flooded both ends of the Grand Canyon. Now their principal concern is the soaring redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens...
...lobbyist. "But let the fellow next door want to sell out, and he'll find the money to buy that farm." Nonetheless, the farmer's resentments seem real enough-as the Democrats discovered in last November's elections. Last week, to demonstrate the party's concern, Vice President Hubert Humphrey-and Senator Robert Kennedy followed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the National Farmers Union convention in Oklahoma City. Speaking for the Administration, Humphrey pledged farmers an "honest deal" in Washington. "It is time," he said, "that the American farmer received a fair share of our national...
Against the immense problems raised by this trend, the LSE Administration's concern with minute points of discipline can only hurt the real business of education. For six weeks in February and March, the Administration exhausted the School with disciplinary hearings which most students and many faculty members thought fundamentally unnecessary and unjust. This week, the students have taken possession of the main buildings, and are running an "open university." In a letter from London which arrived yesterday, a friend described the round-the-clock seminars on educational theory and structure; lectures by sympathetic academics; and the general ferment...
Accordingly, CLAO's prime concern at the moment is to strengthen its rapport with the neighborhood. Since it is under a research, not a community action grant, CLAO does not have a formal board of advisors from the poor. It must seek information through the less formal channels of neighborhood meetings, church groups, and talks with clients...
Galbraith reportedly agreed to accept the post at the unanimous request of the ADA nominating committee because of his deepening concern over the Vietnam war. Relations between ADA and the Administration worsened recently, after ADA vice-chairman Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 attacked the Administration's stand on Vietnam negotiations...