Word: ferriss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt my life was in danger," claimed former Sgt. Lawrence Shafer. Yet Guardsman James W. Ferriss testified: "I saw no necessity to shoot...
...lessened value of a degree on the job market, as well as the end of the draft, largely accounts for this declining enrollment. But there is another factor. Emory Sociologist Abbott L. Ferriss points also to the large and growing number of "dropouts, not just from school but from society-a hang-loose generation." There are now about 200,000 young men who are not in school but are not working. "Pinning down exactly what these young people are doing is very difficult," says Ferriss. "But the current suggestions are that they won't pick up college later...