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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unhappily, those goals conflicted. To help minority group students, C.C.N.Y. admitted and gave special tutoring to less-qualified freshmen, but the numbers remained low. In April, 200 black and Puerto Rican students locked themselves inside the gates of the college's south campus. They wanted admissions policy to reflect the racial composition of the city's high schools, which are 45% nonwhite, compared with 12% at C.C.N.Y. They demanded control of faculty hiring and firing in the tutoring program, and a separate degree-granting school of black and Puerto-Rican studies. Backed by the politically appointed board...
Ironically, this blunt demand on the churches originated from a well-intentioned effort by a liberal interfaith group to draw out black ideas for the economic betterment of urban ghettos. The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which includes 23 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Negro and Mexican-American groups, organized the National Black Economic Development Conference to bring black leaders together for discussions and action on the economic aspects of Black Power. The result was not what IFCO had expected. Forman took over a meeting of the conference in Detroit and called for an end to the capitalistic system...
Nixon suggested that the dividend be split between a tax reduction and social programs, particularly aid to education. Before he joined the Administration, Economic Adviser Stein headed a Committee for Economic Development group that proposed spending most of the money to alleviate urban, racial and poverty problems. The group also recommended cutting the basic corporate income tax back to 38%, down from the "temporary" Korean War rate of 48%. In any case, debate over the peace dividend should lead to a valuable new appraisal of the nation's priorities-and its fresh opportunities...
...carburetor barrels, compression ratio, weight, pounds per horsepower and axle ratio. One Pennsylvania-based company, the Erie Insurance Exchange, already uses the horsepower-weight ratio to take the temperature of a prospective car and refuses to write new policies on any that register "hot." As Mann told a group of insurers in a speech: "It is obvious that performance cars are involved in a much higher number of accidents than nonperformance cars...
...plan is the faculty response to the demand of a group of first-year students the Law School adopt pass-fail grading. It gives first-year students the option of receiving their grades as pass-fail, high-satisfactory-low-fail, or in the nine categories the School has used for the past year...