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Developed two years ago by Howard T. Fisher, director of the new Laboratory for Computer Graphics, the technique is being used at other universities for work in climatology, oceanography, and oil geology. Harvard, Fisher said, is in the forefront of computerized map-making as applied to urban planning...
Second, the report claims that the race issue will become "politically neutral" with the next ten to fifteen years, allowing Republicans to attack the South's old rural and new urban economic problems: "As the race issue recedes as a political issue, economic questions will come to the forefront, and will have as much weight with the lower income whites as it will with the colored electorate." Even if race does cease to be a political issue, (which seems unlikely, since it has remained an issue in the "emancipated" North for a century) Negroes identified overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party...
HANG ON SLOOPY (Cadet). At the forefront of this jazzy fragment is Ramsey Lewis' piano, accompanied by the intoxicated squeals of his fans and a bit of distant chanting, "Hang on, Sloopy." Slurpy...
...protest within the framework of established U.S. institutions. Bettina Aptheker, who candidly puts her faith in revolution, of course resists the channeling-although an irony of her position is that many Berkeley "New Left" students think Communism anachronistic. She has to keep explaining that her party is "in the forefront of social advances," and that other left-wing movements tend to be "too left-so left they're absurd...
...consideration, most unwed mothers are called "Mrs.," but a resident warns: "You don't ask a Negro woman about her husband. If she's married, she'll tell you." The ghetto's children, in particular, regard the riot leaders as freedom fighters. Those at the forefront of the chaos have hardly been chastened by such irresponsible post-mortems as Senator Robert Kennedy's verdict: "There is no point in telling Negroes to obey the law. To many Negroes the law is the enemy." Boasts one husky youth: "If we don't get things changed...