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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken over S.N.C.C. and the Congress of Racial Equality deride the older, moderate leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League and Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference as "Uncle Toms" and "white niggers." S.N.C.C. has called the N.A.A.C.P. not only reactionary but "one of the main roadblocks to black freedom." Dr. King is denounced with increasing viciousness by the militants, who claim that he has entered into a secret pact with the "white Establishment...
...drive for success at all costs, on the decline of old ethical restraints. As long ago as two decades, Anthropologist Ruth Benedict observed that the U.S. was changing from a "guilt culture," in which people's consciences restrained them, to a "shame culture," in which the main deterrent was fear of getting caught...
...sharp debate rages among China-watchers on the question of Red China's nuclear and rocket capability. The main point of contention is whether or not the crude nuclear devices that three times in the past two years have boomed over Lop Nor in the Takla Makan Desert are deliverable atomic bombs...
Part-Time Professors. Mainly because of dismally low salaries, most Latin American faculties consist of part-time teachers whose main interest is in their outside jobs in law, medicine or politics. At San Marcos, only 57 of 1,344 professors teach fulltime, have little opportunity or incentive to do scholarly research. In inflation-ridden Brazil, where professors seldom make more than $200 a month, university teachers moonlight on two or three different jobs to make ends meet. Understandably, a Buenos Aires student complains: "It is very difficult to study with professors who very often have less knowledge than those being...
While the sideshow went on in Detroit, General Electric and Westinghouse negotiators sat down with unions representing 180,000 electrical workers for what promises to be the main labor event in 1966. For weeks, G.E. has been fighting to prevent a coalition of eight unions, led by the International Union of Electrical Workers, into a single bargaining agent. Under present law, such a labor gang-up would seem to be patently illegal. But federal courts have ordered both G.E. and Westinghouse to talk to the unions as a group while the National Labor Relations Board frets over the problem...