Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of this unparalleled abundance, another nation dwells in grinding deprivation. It comprises the 29,700,000 Americans who are denied access to the wealth that surrounds them ?a group three times the population of Belgium. They are the men, women and children?black, white, red, yellow and brown?who live below the "poverty line...
...Economic Opportunity, which for nearly four years has waged President Johnson's War on Poverty, the poor make up 15% of the U.S. population. Contrary to the impression given by riots and all the other conspicuous problems of the slums, Negroes are not the major component of that group, at least not in numbers: two out of every three poor Americans are white. Of the 11 million rural poor, nearly 9,000,000 are white. Since 70% of the nation's citizens live in cities and towns, it is not surprising that more than 60% of the poor are urban...
Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
Within this system of government, which has no pretensions of being democratic, the Overseers can and do serve only as a pressure group. They grant final approval on appointments and on major statutes, but these matters are actually decided at a Faculty level and receive only a rubber-stamp from the Overseers. The presence of Overseers merely forces University officers to justify their decision intelligently to laymen--distinguished and sympathetic laymen to be sure--but still laymen...
...Harvard's officers accept the University as a democracy. And if they did, where would one stop? Are students and Faculty members more affected by Harvard investment and real estate practices than are Harvard employees or Cambridge residents? How is it best for all these groups to influence Harvard's decision-making process? Trying to change the Overseers from a body of outside advisors and donors into a forum of discussion will never accomplish much. By exerting pressure as a responsible interest group upon the actual decision-makers, students and others will achieve much more...