Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghetto orphan at six, but now surpass at least 97% of whites in education and income. What I resent is that when you publish a "Black and White Balance Sheet" [Jan. 24], you do not also explain that according to the 1960 census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system really...
...Black students demanding courses in Afro-American studies? I'm with 'em. Courses in Afro-American studies leading to terminal degrees? I'm with 'em. A hyperactive four-letter-word demagogue to head the Department of Afro-American Studies? I ain't with 'em. Black students determining what shall be taught in Afro-American studies? I ain't with 'em. Terminal degrees in Afro-American studies leading toward solving black social, psychological, education and economic problems? I'm with 'em-all the way. Black students demanding segregation within integration? Never...
From Blocks Away. Even as the President's message was made public, Washington's rising crime wave was being dramatized only four blocks from the White House, where a bank was held up -Washington's 621st armed robbery during January, twice the 1968 rate...
...court judgeship, first became interested in conservation as a big-game hunter. In 1961, he founded the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation to help assure that Africa's new governments would do a better job of preserving game than their colonial predecessors had. For the past four years he has headed the nonprofit Conservation Foundation, which, under his leadership, addressed its educational and research programs to increasingly broader fields (waste disposal, the danger of pesticides, hunger...
...last of the miners had left by the turn of the century, and it was not until four years ago that a new band of prospectors returned to Mineral King. Financed by the late Walt Disney, they systematically surveyed the Sierra woodland-now a part of a national forest. Finally they suggested that Mineral King's real riches could be realized in 20th century America as a year-round vacation resort. It sounded at first like a sterling idea to almost everyone concerned. Last week, however, when the Disney group's plans were given final approval...