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Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, and E.U. Essien-Udom, author of the famous Black Nationalism (written at Chicago under Edward C. Banfield) were anticipating, based on their knowledge of Negro lower class culture and the Muslim phenomenon, that the ghettoes would soon erupt into riot. "What's going to stop them?" Epps would ask. "Negroes like you," was their reply...
...preparedness onto the same young men who are selected to carry the burden of risk and disrupted careers. The "cost" of attracting the 2.5 or 2.75 million enlistees in peace-time is not really saved when we draft them; it is merely shifted, in the form of lower wages, from taxpayers to the men in the service...
...reasonable pay differentials maintaned among servicemen, with pay increases that would total between $2 billion and $3 billion per year. We recommend such increases on grounds of fairness and in the belief that a democracy with a GNF of over half a trillion dollars, and with income-tax rates lower than those prevailing before Vietnam, has no compelling need to use conscription to keep military wages down...
...into capital, Mrs. Bunting was reluctant to risk a still greater loss. She assured the girls that she and administrative officials were working on economy measures to allow more girls off-campus. "But we will not run a bigger deficit, raise room rates for everyone in the dorms, and lower the standards of dorm living to allow a few individuals to have apartments," she insisted...
Having known only affluence--with out having worked for it themselves--they saw an emptiness and crassness in material wealth; they criticized the arrogance and insensitivity of the world that this drive for abundance had produced. Although more and more students came to Harvard from lower-middle income families, fewer and fewer went to Business School and into business...