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...funny thing about all of these committees is that none of them list the John Birch Society on any of their bulletins, pamphlets, or organizational material. The Society claims that 90 per cent of the Committees' members are non-Birchers, and that 4 Hill Road only gives impetus and direction to them. But as Gotch told me apologetically as we drove away from the buildings, "The Communists have fronts. We have Ad Hoc Committees...
...level. The federal version of the ERA that Congress passed in 1972 needs to be ratified by only four more states in order to become the 27th amendment to the Constitution. But the resounding defeat of ERA in New Jersey and New York has given anti-ERA groups new impetus to renew their efforts to prevent the passage of a federal equal rights amendment...
Netzer said he believes, however, that there is room for substantial cuts in the city's budget and that the impetus for making difficult budget choices may come from "tough" restrictions accompanying the loan guarantee...
Some of the report's suggestions are just now being adopted, mostly in diluted forms and through other committees. But its major recommendations, particularly the bold "mentor plan," an elaborate residential college-run program that marched students with faculty tutors, have been forgotten. The impetus for the mentor program, Dahl says, was the need to change ineffective advising and counseling that students received. But Dahl says the plan, which would have provided 15 mentors per college ruffled the feathers of the faculty, who viewed it as "a threat to departmental programs" and as "raising the danger of declining standards...
...that the main impetus to give restorative aid to Vietnam seems to be coming from philanthropic groups and Ivy League profesors now. The efforts of the scientists who said last week they are trying to raise $1 million for books, equipments and medical aid for Vietnam should be matched and surpassed by the federal government, which has a far graver responsiblity to the Vietnamese people...