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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...
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...
...Cuban economy is in tatters, but certainly not "back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer." Cuba's economy before Castro was buoyant and quite diversified, although the sugar industry was the basic business, just as steel is in this country. Contrary to what you say, Castro is a very real threat. Nevertheless, your portrayal of Brother Raúl as the archetype of the bastard is quite accurate. NÉSTOR E. CRUZ GAVALDÁ Villanova University...
...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...