Word: minimum
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Poverty. Finally, Johnson flew to New York to address the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union on the 50th anniversary of its Health Center and became the Defender of the Downtrodden and the Crusader Against Poverty. Said he: "We will help the underprivileged and the underpaid by extending minimum wage and unemployment compensation. We have mounted an attack upon the final fortresses of poverty. We will continue the hundred years' struggle to give every American-of every race and color-equal opportunity in American society...
...might be waged all around Hazleton, Pa. (pop. 32,500), which is perched amid deserted coal mines high on Spring Mountain in the heart of depressed and desolate Appalachia. But Hazleton has already fought a valiant anti-poverty war of its own. Moreover, it has done so with a minimum of federal help...
...political independence. Neither should be sacrificed casually. Civil rights is certainly a crucial political and social issue; but there have been other important causes and there will certainly be more. The University, as a large investor, is involved indirectly in almost every controversial political issue. Should the Corporation set minimum wages and determine fair labor standards for every firm in which it invests? What should be its policy toward companies whose subsidiaries trade with Cuba? Total University abstention from politics is not head-in-the-sand defeatism; it is a practical recognition that the University cannot be both forum...
Brooks also voiced the majority CEP view that no change in the grade requirement for CLGS is needed. He pointed out that the present requirement already exceeds the minimum number of honors grades that a candidate for departmental honors would need...
Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, said yesterday he was one of the minority on the Committee who had favored stiffening somewhat the requirements for CLGS. He suggested substituting an over-all minimum grade average for the present requirements of at least 11 1/2 B- grades...