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Like Cheek, Henderson puts a high priority on urban studies, is establishing a Southern Center for Studies in Pub lic Policy with a $25,000 planning grant from the Field Foundation. He is also using grants to pay for an upcoming seminar on the economic development of black ghettos and a program to upgrade Negro college newspapers...
With Johnson's withdrawal, the bot tom dropped out of the prediction mar ket. Mary McGrory had pointed out that the pundits were wrong about Romney, wrong about McCarthy, wrong about Bobby, wrong about Rocky. "Everything is unintelligible," she wrote, "unless one takes the position that pub lic men of both parties are meeting in cellars and plotting new ways to make idiots of reporters, particularly those who earn their bread predicting what public figures are going...
Obviously, the Tet offensive had much to do with Johnson's slide. Administration officials still believe that the attacks were a costly military failure for the Communists. But they concede that Tet had severely damaging psychological effects on the U.S. pub lic In its aftermath, Johnson began his reexamination of the U.S. war effort. To help him conduct the review, he summoned General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, the tough, cigar-chomping tank commander who is the second-ranking...
...added that "these modifications in no way alter the rule which the pub lic safety has always required, that per sons who are dangerous due to mental illness be confined." Despite the dis claimer, the ruling did raise the specter of a murderer found not guilty by rea son of insanity and later judged not insane enough for confinement...
...paper there can't be a U.S. pub- lic-schoolteacher shortage. Each year the nation's colleges turn out 200,000 graduates qualified for teaching, and 150,000 take jobs. That is 50,000 more than the net loss from teachers who retire or quit. Since the school population is growing at about 1,000,000 a year, these graduates should provide one new teacher for every 20 children-an admirable ratio. Yet as schools opened this month, the teacher shortage was the worst since World...