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...reason, Lazorcak says, is rising rent-up $15 a month last year. His wife stretches the dollar by growing her own fruits and vegetables in a garden. The couple's last night out was on their sixth anniversary-and it cost them a prohibitive $40. Lazorcak, a high-school graduate, thinks only vaguely about going to college some day to study architecture. He has abandoned hopes of opening additional pizza shops because, unlike the heads of bigger businesses, he cannot raise money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen and add another room to the house because...
...dissenters themselves are a heterogenous group. Although higher draft calls have brought more college men into the service, few of them seem willing to risk the stigma of a bad-conduct or dishonorable discharge to protest the system. Most of those involved are college and high-school dropouts. Some are misfits with poor civilian and military records who use opposition to the war as a rationale for their conduct and attitude. Many others, of course, are sincere in their rebellious attitude. A.S.U. Chief Stapp says that as many as 5% of the country's 3.5 million men in uniform...
ATTENTION is given to the undesirable effect of integration in education, and to the steadily declining percentage of Negroes who are going on the college (although the percentage of black high-school graduates has increased faster than that of whites). In the long view, integration is seen as a good thing, when defined by Howard as "two elements that are different coming together, each making a contribution to a new whole that neither can individually achieve...
...excellent example is the case of Kevin Bein '70. Bein had been active in high-school gymnastics in his senior year, and he decided to come to Harvard despite its lack of facilities. As a freshman, he worked out on his own in the IAB until the rings he was swinging on broke...
...surprising to find that Cavanagh and DeMichele have been playing together for ten years. They started together on a pee-wee team, and progressed through high-school. They separated for a year to different prep-schools before combining again last year on the freshman team...