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Harris finds three catalysts for the "chemistry of change" that has affected the U.S. moral climate. Americans-especially black Americans-are increasingly alienated from traditional values and systems. At the same time, more people have come to share a greater compassion for the problems of others. Finally, affluence, a more mobile society and higher educational levels have combined to create an openness toward moral experimentation that, as Harris notes, has "never before been dreamed of in any society in the world's history...
...trip began that "I felt that before I really unleashed all my feelings about the media, I really ought to make one more try." He called it a "sensitizing tour," and organized it partly to convince the national press that he has moved the league into a position of greater militancy and cooperation with grass-roots black movements. Far more important, he wanted to expose this group to the physical setting, the chaotic swirl of self-help activity and the continuing problems of the nation's depressed areas. The result was a bewildering, moving, and highly educational experience...
...true; partly not. According to a recent study of 205 New York City mothers (10% of them white), which was reported last week at the National Conference on Social Welfare, fewer than half of them turn out that way. As Mignon Sauber, research director of the Community Council of Greater New York, points out, the conventional picture of these women is vastly exaggerated...
...five golfers representing Harvard in the NCAAs later this month, Wynne compiled a respectable 9-5 record but failed to place in the top five in either the Easterns or the Greater Bostons. "In my freshman year, I would have been disappointed by my performance this season, but somehow my orientation has changed-sports aren't that important anymore," Wynne said...
...yards have so far built nothing greater than 109,000 d.w.t. but Bethlehem Steel and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock are gearing up to turn out tankers in the 200,000-d.w.t. class. Even those will seem small next to the foreign-built ships of the future. Japan's Nippon Kokan next month will open a dock that can accommodate an 800,000-tonner, and Belfast's Harland & Wolff is constructing a new facility that should be able to handle a million-d.w.t. vessel...