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...seniors were considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self-conscious, so temperate...
...effective July 1968, it neglected to set any taxes to pay the costs of welfare. Last autumn a tax bill was introduced but Speaker Davoren and the rest of the Democratic leadership weren't too interested in raising taxes and the chances of passing an adequate financing bill were meager. In other words, the Welfare Re-Organization scheme was strictly a paper...
...intellectual content of Uncle T's monologues is often meager. His thoughts are not going to be passed on from generation to generation. But who cares? You don't want to listen to John Kenneth Galbraith rap between cuts of the Nashville Street Band playing "Baby Please Don't Go" and Richard Berry playing "Yamma Yamma Pretty Mamma...
...These young men are willing to sacrifice long-nurtured ambitions and almost certain glory for the affirmation of an ideal," the letter continues. "They are saying to their people and the world that gold medals and momentary plaudits are meager consolation for being denied the fundamental right of human dignity...
Next month the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will hold hearings on job discrimination in New York, where Negroes represent 18.2% of the population but only hold 6.3% of white-collar jobs and are a meager 1.8% of the "managerial class." Even those in managerial jobs in most areas are usually lower-level executives. "If I let big business here poke me in the eye once for every Negro vice president it has," says a Los Angeles civil rights worker, "I'd never have to blink...