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...reach people in cheese and unemployment lines, and Frontlash is gunning for voting-age youths. Meanwhile, from the right side of the spectrum, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is putting together a booklet to encourage businessmen to vote, and the Republican National Committee is making special efforts to enlist members of the armed forces and evangelicals...
...registration groups--especially on the Left--are beginning to come up with some innovative ways of adding names to the voter rolls. Project VOTE, for instance, is an organization that tries to enlist low-income voters by setting up registration tables in food stamp and unemployment lines and housing projects. "We tell them that the social programs--for which they are in line--being cut affect poor people and minorities, and that their failure to register and vote has elected those responsible," says Alan Raby, an official with the program. Efforts like these, moreover, are being helped...
...people with all types of interests and abilities. During the past year, the admissions office has increased the number of students it sends out into the field to recruit, rewritten many of its brochures, and contacted minority alumni and 10,000 high school guidance counselors around the country to enlist support. All this new propaganda and increased communications effort is designed to attract students who wouldn't normally consider applying to Harvard because of misconceptions about the College--usually confusion about the availability of financial aid or feelings that they wouldn't fit or even...
...William J. McGurk in Montclair. N.J., said his callers included a 57-year-old woman who was too young to join the Navy in World War II and too old to enlist now, and a 37 year-old Army veteran who admitted being overweight but wanted to go to Beirut "if there's any way I could help...
Several men told recruiters in Albany, N.Y. they want to enlist but only if they could go to Lebanon or Grenada immediately, said Capt. Richard Hibbert. Told they would need four months' training before going overseas, most changed their minds...