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...program that has no money, that wishes only to use them for experimentation... how is it that women who look to their local community action program for help in their war on poverty again find only a show with no possibility of day care money that wants to engulf every people's struggle-not in order to succeed but to carry on the show and thus the director's salary... how a group of women who could work so long and hard to become day care experts without a center could find a last resort in a combination of Welfare...

Author: By Terry Rockefeller, | Title: A New Style for Student Social Action | 3/31/1971 | See Source »

...bureaucratic mode is quite simple. Instead of examining assumptions and issues, only consider technicate; if the challenge persists- set up calities. Whenever challenged- obfusnew bureaucratic structures to engulf it, erode it, or simply outlive...

Author: By Sanford Kreisberg, | Title: Inside the CRR- The Committee in Person | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...news confrontations" on the lawns of wealthy Reagan backers. Painting Reagan as the servant of vested California interests, accusing him of profiteering to the tune of $1,000,000 in a private real estate transaction, Unruh of late has been making waves, none of them powerful enough to engulf the popular Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Struggle for the Statehouses | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

Facing Mecca The gun carriage had hardly gone 15 yards onto El Tahrir Bridge when the crowd swept from the Nile's banks to engulf it. The dignitaries behind it were supposed to march nearly a mile to the headquarters of the Arab Socialist Union and there make way for a "popular funeral," in which the common people would escort Nasser's body to the burial mosque. The officials could scarcely move at all. Police tried un successfully to beat back the crowds with braided whips and bamboo sticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nasser's Legacy: Hope and instability | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing the city's stately tamarind trees. Sidewalks are crowded with vendors. Alleys are scenes of chaos, as dogs, children and chickens scurry amid garbage and rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Urban Trend | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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