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...compensation funds prompts some big employers, like those in the auto industry, to work their labor forces overtime instead of hiring. The Nixon Administration has sharply reduced funds to hire ghetto youth and support ? job training programs for minorities -cutbacks that, asserts the N.A.A.C.P.'S I Hill, could consign many ghetto dwellers to a future in which they "have no anticipation of ever entering the labor force" and will have to turn to crime...
...Democratic caucus gave him 23% of the vote, and last week Arizona's awarded him 20% of its delegate slate. Neither outcome was enough to lead the crowded field, but the figures were more than four times the 3% to 5% share of voters the pollsters normally consign to him. Moreover, in both states McGovern was able to score significantly by running his kind of campaign-pushing issues, not personalities, and relying on a carefully worked-out series of proposals, not rhetoric, to attract voters...
...without the prestige-and the cost-of a departmental letterhead. In this instance, you showed more intelligence than the managerial minds in University Hall who last spring authorized the use of House stationery for partisan political purposes. It is unfortunate that your intelligence was not sufficiently durable to consign the material on withholding one's telephone tax to a convenient incinerator. The argument of that material may be appropriate for Harvard undergraduates-and, alas, far too many graduate students-but from college teachers, it seems to bespeak a retarded adolescence. There is something pathetically jejune about your encouraging a policy...
...complain that you don't divide along political lines, Mr. Huntington, but why don't you ever try moral lines. (Isn't it incredible that mentioning morality should instantly consign one to the realms of the banal?) Political lines. So it looks as if old Henry, fresh from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Asians fighting for their right to self-determination, will come back here to bask in the glow of adoring undergraduates and (mostly) graduate students. What kind of people are these? What kind of person am I that I talk civilly to them...
...recognition of China would improve Washington's standing, especially among Third World nations which resent its campaigning to consign China to a kind of outcast status...