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Little Appeal. Then, too, there was the military's Project 100,000, launched in 1967 to meet the rising manpower needs dictated by a lack of volunteers and by the many educational deferments. So named for the number of eligible draftees it would encompass each year (but actually a Pentagon euphemism for lowering the military's physical and mental standards), the program reached into the traditionally rejected pool of society's marginal youth, chronic dropouts and underachievers-about 175,000 in the first 28 months. Inducted, trained for battle and little else...
...program, which will encompass 300 to 400 students, was initiated following the report of a joint committee. The committee was set up in 1967 by President Pusey and M. I. T. President Howard Johnson, with Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School and Dr. Jerome B. Weisner, provost of M. I. T., as co-chairmen...
...hour-long meeting with the committee last week, Pusey said he was interested only in results which encompass a thorough sampling of Law School students' opinion. The task is imposing...
...Jersey, the same family would receive $4,164, with no other circumstances of their lives changed. Washington sets some of the rules. To get at the funds, the states and localities meet the rules, often grudgingly, and then set some of their own. Rarely is bureaucracy flexible enough to encompass complex human situations. Often regulations that were sensibly written to prevent abuses end up strangling the system. A collage of the absurdities the rules have wrought...
...distresses about the sorry spectacle is that it is so singularly inappropriate a tribute to the memory of DuBois. He, above all, placed considerable emphasis on interracial cooperation. On more than one occasion he discerned "the beginning of wisdom in inter-racial contact", and sought-ever so indefatigably-to encompass "broader cooperation with the white rulers of the world," offering a chance for peaceful development of black peoples, and an avoidance of catastrophic race war. If only the whites, "the deaf and dumb masters of the world," could recognize that such cooperation with blacks on the bases of equality...