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Moreover, there is little public or judicial support for police crackdowns on illegal wagering, a so-called victimless crime. The principal moral objection to the numbers game today is that it is, in effect, a regressive form of taxation that is borne far more heavily by the poor than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: GAMBLING GOES LEGIT | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Right on, says Farrah Fawcett-Majors, the spectacularly maned frosted blonde who is first among equals as a sex object, seen braless on all the shows. She has even on occasion refused to don a bikini, not because she has an objection to the costume, but because she felt the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

It appears then that there are two separate questions at hand. One, and perhaps the less tangible, is the issue of Asian-Americans as a minority. This seems to require less an evaluation of statistics and more a realization of the psychological pressures of being an Asian-American student. White...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: Asian-Americans: Fighting on Two Fronts | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

In the Lockheed case, the subcommittee specifically informed then-Under Secretary Robert Ingersoll, a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, that it intended to reveal in public hearings the identity of Kodama, Lockheed's secret agent in Japan, as well as the fact that certain unnamed Japanese officials were alleged to...

Author: By Frank Church, | Title: Lockheed: Corporation or Political Actor? | 10/26/1976 | See Source »

Harvard's present Affirmative Action plan was accepted in 1973 much to the objection of women's and minorities' groups. Inadequacies were rampant in the university's plan, including ridiculously low goals and timetables, as well as non-consultation with representative organizations of affected parties (women and oppressed nationalities). Rather...

Author: By William Fletcher, | Title: The Spiders' Web: Affirmative Action and the Struggle for Democratic Rights at Harvard | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

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