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Former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird estimates that at least 100,000?and perhaps as many as 250,000?military families could be eligible for welfare. Says Colonel Eliot: "When 16% of the Air Force can qualify for food stamps, patriotism doesn't make it as a motivator." Military base commissaries are taking in over $10 million annually in food stamps. Complains a paratroop sergeant in Alaska: "If the Government can give me $71 a month in food stamps, why can't it give it to me in salary...
...TIME held a seminar that brought together five of the nation's experts on the subject: Morris Janowitz, 60, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the nation's few academics to study the military as a distinct group within society; Melvin Laird, 57, who as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 led the fight for the all-volunteer force, and is now the Washington-based senior counsellor on national and international affairs for the Reader's Digest; Senator Sam Nunn, 41, the Georgia Democrat who is chairman...
...Wednesday night rally which featured State Rep. Melvin R. King, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Winston Kendall, Ezera's attorney, attracted more than 70 people from the Harvard community. Ezera attributed his success to the support from University students...
State Rep. Melvin R. King last night told the crowd "A lot of us have sat by and done nothing because ostensibly it's somebody else." Ezera's case "is a political issue. It has nothing to do with innocence. It has to do with a person of color," he added...
Sometimes a very interesting synthesis emerges. Melvin Edwards' small sculptures, made of scrap iron forged and welded together, have a strongly totemic flavor. They allude to the once common practice of bricolage in West African tribal art, whereby mixed scraps of junk (nails, tin, cartridge cases and so forth) were incorporated into carved masks and figures. Junk sculpture has also been a Western convention for decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open...