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...reason is the pragmatic need to find more school space for Negro students. Despite the intensive efforts of white colleges and universities to increase their registration of blacks, less than one-fourth of 1970's qualified Negro high school graduates are attending college. By 1980, the commission believes, the number of blacks enrolled in college will rise from 492,000 to 1,100,000-and major integrated institutions will obviously not be able to take all of them. Although the Negro schools should not exclude whites-most of them, in fact, do have at least a few enrolled...
...Masson, a subsidiary of Seagram's, is increasing its grape lands around Monterey by 10,000 acres, an area two-thirds the size of Manhattan. Christian Bros. is uprooting plum orchards in order to plant vines. St. Helena's Louis M. Martini Co. stepped up production by one-fourth last year. "Like most of the family wineries, we are taking out just enough money to live on and plowing the rest back into the business," says Louis P. Martini, son of the founder. "We have never been more successful-or felt poorer...
...seem to be interested in taking Phnom-Penh; there are no enemy troops at the gates. Rather, they seem intent on using as few troops as possible to pin down as much of Cambodia's FANK (for Forces Armées Nationales Khmères) as possible. Only one-fourth of the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia are toying with the capital's supply routes; the rest are trying to carve out staging areas in northeast Cambodia and reconstruct supply routes into South Viet Nam's III and IV Corps areas...
Australian Catholics-who number about one-fourth of the population-face problems that are far more contemporary but no less painful. During the early postwar years, the church lost some prestige when hierarchy and laity split over the issue of Communist influence in the labor unions. Now the problem is Australia's restrictions on non-European immigration. Archbishop James R. Knox recently spoke out publicly against a "white Australia policy," but other Australians tend to worry about "importing" racial tensions...
Just before Thanksgiving, Simon and Schuster released a book which no one will want to read while eating-Mark Lane's Conversations with Americans consists of 32 tape-recorded interviews with Vietnam veterans that dwell on acts of brutality and the psychology of the armed forces which primes our soldiers for them. Reading this book is like taking a ride in a spin-dry Laundromat filled with blood. Approximately one-fourth of the way into the book, there remains nothing for the most naive reader to discover, and the same events keep repeating themselves in wave after inexorable wave...