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...McNamara encouraged them to enlist with his "new standard" programs???mental and physical standards were lowered in 1966, supposedly to help blacks and other minorities get ahead. Alas, it merely coaxed them more quickly into the freshman class of cannon fodder. Fulton is a little off the point: the injustices of recruiting for Viet Nam involved class more than race. It was the lower-middle and lower classes, regardless of race, who went to shed blood, while their betters observed from society's good seats...
Each of the budget's 3,000 spending programs???from the beekeepers' indemnity fund to the space shuttle?has its defenders in Congress, and even the most seemingly inconsequential of cutbacks will inspire protests. OMB is recommending, for example, that the U.S. Travel Service, set up under John Kennedy to lure foreign tourists, be scrapped completely. The saving would be only $14 million, and the travel industry is already lobbying against the cut. The budget bashers have also cut 1,100 men from a Justice Department request for 14,000 border-patrol officers to intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. Organized...
...inevitability of Title IX has forced schools to upgrade their programs for girls, and fast. Says Margot Polivy, the attorney for the A.I.A.W.: "In 1972, before Title IX, women's intercollegiate sports had 1% of the budget of the men's. I would judge today that women's programs???the best of them?are running between 15% and 18% of the men's programs on money. And on the average, women's programs are running about 10%. Colleges are just now starting to feel the impact of what's been happening on the elementary and secondary level. I would expect...
...last "popular" program, perhaps the most difficult kind to put together. His orchestral pieces were: the overture of The Secret of Suzanne, Ballet Suite from Sylvia, the Nutcracker Suite, the Blue Danube Waltz. Certainly this concoction of dance and lightness is " popular" enough, and yet?unlike most popular programs???it will not chase away the music-satiated cognoscenti...
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