Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means is all of the criticism aimed at Shakespeare deserved. There has been a drop in USIA morale steeper than that accompanying most bureaucratic changes of command. But that is due mainly to the impending cut of 375 staff positions for reasons of economy, not ideology. Two weeks ago, USIA rushed out a propaganda film called The Silent Majority. Those who had not seen it automatically assumed from the title that it was a partisan rebuttal to the antiwar march on Washington, and there were cries of foul. In fact, the film gives generally fair treatment to both sides...
...meeting yesterday, the faculty decided to drop the second half of its present MAT Program-which consists of one year of academic work and one as a school intern. As interns, ed students have worked for salaries under the guidance of trained teachers in Boston-area schools...
Those with birthdays drawn first will be the first to be inducted; those with birthdays drawn near the bottom of the list will be almost sure of exemption throughout the year. Those classified 1-A and not drafted during the year will drop into a lower-priority pool and will ordinarily be draft-exempt for the rest of their lives...
...wait until late in 1970 and try to estimate how many men under his local draft board have higher numbers and how many might be called. If it looked safe, he could drop out of school, wait to not be drafted, and go on with whatever he wanted to do: His liability would expire the first...
Less extreme pessimism is being expressed even by some minority voices within the Government. Treasury Economist Herman Liebling has warned in a confidential memo that prices could rise as much as 6% next year. His reasoning: labor productivity is likely to drop while wages keep rising, intensifying cost pressure on prices. J. Dewey Daane, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, expressed doubt that price increases will slow to a "tolerable" rate even by the end of 1970, despite the Board's tight squeeze on credit...