Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American age was 291, and today it is 28. One-fourth of all Americans go to school; by the early 1970s, that fraction will be about one-third. There are already 35 million potential voters 35 or younger, and that number will shoot up as the great war-baby crop continues to turn 21. No party can ignore the shift in the political center of gravity, for around this center will swing political success in the future. To be sure, parental conditioning plus ethnic background still give many youngsters their political set. But in the greatest numbers ever, young people...
Showing the Way. It is the U.S. Marines who are providing the best pilot model for a pacification program. No fewer than 10,000 marines stood guard recently while the peasants near Danang brought in their rice crop free of the Viet Cong-who are accustomed to seizing a large part of it for their own supplies. Navy doctors and corpsmen are treating more than 500 civilians a day in forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub...
Leverett uses a two-platoon system with a line that averages over 200 pounds. Key to the defense is Joe Augusclak '66, captain and linebacker. One of the best of a good crop of sophomores is Ed Stump at offensive center...
...Passed, by a House vote of 219 to 150, a new four-year agriculture bill that would increase wheat prices an average of 150 a bushel, lower supports for next year's cotton crop from 300 to 210 a pound, with compensatory federal payments to growers who agree to limit production. Overall, the bill aims at reducing the Government's $4 billion annual price tag for farm surpluses by about $100 million. The bill was the product of a House-Senate conference committee, now goes to the Senate...
Beating the Poll Tax. Republican Holton's optimism has nonetheless been buoyed by signs of unprecedented G.O.P. activity around the state. Many Virginia precincts and districts have their first Republican organizations in history, and the party has produced a bumper crop of legislative candidates: 14 for the 40-member state senate, 51 for the 100-man house. During a 24-hour statewide tour last week, Holton and Nixon drew bigger crowds in many towns than any other Republicans have mustered in Virginians' memory...