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...that the only function of Reddin's community councils is to release Negro frustrations through talk, without bringing effective action. Arthur Garcia, a Mexican-American spokesman, claims that only yes men sit on his community's councils. Felix Gutierrez, another Latin leader, notes that the L.A.P.D. still refuses to lower the height requirements so that Mexican-Americans, who tend to be shorter than other Angelenos, can join the force. (By contrast, New York has cut an inch off its previous 5 ft. 8 in. minimum to attract more Puerto Ricans.) One Mexican-American says that a riot...
...addition to compensation for the land itself, the state should pay him for loss of privacy and deterioration of his scenic view. He also tried a more unusual tack. He demanded added damages for the nuisance caused by the traffic noises at his doorstep. Impressed by his arguments, a lower court awarded him $37,000. The state appealed. Dennison, it said, deserved less money because there was no law that allowed him to collect such noise damages. Last week, in a surprising 4-to-3 decision, New York's Court of Appeals upheld the lower court and declared that...
...President's proposed 26th constitutional amendment is not a new notion. The idea first reached Capitol Hill in 1942, and Eisenhower lost a 1954 bid to lower the nation's voting age by a mere five votes. But the idea seems to be gaining favor. In recent years, polls have found that the majority of the population favors giving 18-year-olds the vote, and L.B.J.'s proposal joins more than 50 similar submissions that have been made to the 90th Congress. The opposition is typified by such stands as that of the New York Daily News...
Elite Institutions. In their rallies, students often argue the necessity of increasing the percentage of university enrollment drawn from the lower economic and social levels. Today barely one student in ten comes from the working class, and the students believe that as long as the university is primarily peopled by an elite, neither it nor the society that supports it can be significantly transformed. At present only 16% of the students who finish secondary school go on to higher education (compared with 40% in the U.S.) and of those who do enter the university, 43% fail to graduate...
...musical prestige as well as pitch, it is hard to get any lower on the scale than the double bass. Rumbling and ungainly, it is the bullfrog of the orchestral lily pond-laughed at by laymen, slighted by composers, and even cursed by its own players, who call it a "monster" or a "baroque doghouse." Once, after Conductor Serge Koussevitzky gave his Boston Symphony players a dazzling demonstration of bass playing, one of them said he was so good that "he sounded like a lousy cellist." At the time, Koussevitzky was one of three men in the 250-year history...