Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tape running 90 miles from beyond New Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin's theory did not suggest that man as a biological animal had improved in the 5,000 years of more or less civilized history. There was no real proof either that evolution toward a still higher life form could be speeded up by improving man's environment...
...black riots in the ghettos-although there is a feeling, if nothing more, that the worst phase of the riots is over; 1968, for instance, was quieter than 1967. Since the time when blacks and whites marched together on Washington in 1963, the dream of integration has seemed increasingly less relevant. Black students on many campuses now want their own segregated dormitories; the rhetoric of black militants has grown increasingly virulent, as last fall's New York school controversy and the continuing battle at San Francisco State College demonstrate. Moderates are often either embarrassed or afraid to be seen...
...three times as likely to be in poverty; they are twice as Likely to be unemployed. While they are gaining more in terms of income than whites, they are not likely to catch up at the present rate for decades. Everything else being equal, an ordinary Negro worker is less likely to find good employment than a white. A new dialogue. What do Negroes want? According to a survey for the Kerner Commission, most Negroes reject the blandishments of black separatists. A FORTUNE survey determined last year, in fact, that about three-quarters thought conditions were better than they...
...funds lack central direction. Drucker believes that the central Government is trying to do too many things that should be left to other organizations functionally better equipped to handle these tasks. He feels that its role should be more and more restricted to making decisions, and that by doing less it would achieve more...
...experts; they produced a three-volume catalogue of its most urgent programs. These were later translated into far-reaching legislative proposals aimed at improving life in the cities, the esthetics of an industrial society and alleviating the living conditions of the poor. Legislatively, the Johnson Administration accomplished more in less time than any other in U.S. history. In 1961 there were 45 federal social programs with expenditures totaling some $9.9 billion; there are now 435, involving expenditures of some $25.6 billion. And yet Johnson failed conspicuously to "generate a new will...