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...groundwork of the world." Ever since, the world "has begun to shift, to change and transform itself with ever increasing rapidity from one shape into another ... Everything at any moment can become almost anything else." But, while hardly an optimist, she agreed that the loss "does not entail, at least not necessarily, the loss of the human capacity for building, preserving and caring for a world that can survive us and remain a place fit to live in for those who come after...
...Last year the Supreme Court ruled out "cross-district" busing of students between the city and the mostly white suburbs; thus limited to the city proper, busing could not do much more than merely shuffle students from one predominantly black school to another. The judge thought either plan would entail a massive effort, including the purchase of hundreds of buses, to little real effect. He called for new proposals that would accept any school with a black enrollment of more than 30% as sufficiently desegregated, a standard that is met at present by 79% of Detroit's 326 public...
Arthurs was offered a position as dean of undergraduate affairs under Dean Whitlock almost two weeks ago, the sources said, and met with Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges, yesterday afternoon to discuss what the post might entail...
...oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Even then, that stirring pledge was unrealistic, as the nation was soon to learn in Indochina. But today such a commitment would be unthinkable, and not only because of the enormous social and economic costs it would entail. Slowly at first, then more rapidly, there has been an erosion of the national consensus that made possible the costly, often creative world role that the U.S. has pursued for the past 30 years...
...result of the suit brought by the five policemen would be to implement an affirmative action plan for police recruitment and promotion. It would entail a rewriting of the civil service examinations on the grounds that they discriminate against minority applicant...