Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Panic Response. The thesis linking the twelve articles is that promise outran performance in the Great Society and obscured the real progress that was being made. The poor were receiving more public help than ever before; yet as their incomes were rising, so were the goals set by the Great Society's engineers. The poor were given money or in-kind benefits like food stamps, but that was not good enough. They were expected to show rapid improvement in school, in their health, in their ability to find jobs. It was a nearly Utopian prescription, and when the programs...
...more black youths out of work in 1969 than in 1960. But the picture was brighter for blacks almost everywhere else. Andrew F. Brimmer, a member of the Federal Reserve Board and a black, feels that increased education resulting in large part from federal aid, was decisive for black progress. At least partly because of these educational gains, blacks were able to get better jobs. Black income rose from $19.7 billion, or 6.2% of the national total, in 1959 to $38.7 billion, or 6.4%, ten years later. The increase was 96%, compared with an 89% jump in white income during...
Chalmers was non-committal on the progress of his work this week, but sources close to him report the theoretical portion of the project is near a successful conclusion...
There may be Nixon's kind of honor in Vietnam--Thieu's regime shows few sings of disappearing--but there is no peace in Vietnam. Ngo Vinh Long '64, who works at Harvard's Vietnamese Studies Project, has carefully monitored the progress of peace, and he reports that war continues steadily...
Nguyen Van Thieu, his army and police, stand directly athwart the path of Vietnamese progress. Thieu has no awesome visions; his only desire is to remain in power and to continue rewarding the small group of landlords and government officials who support him. Thieu cannot survive without the massive amounts of American aid which finance his government and equip his army. But the United States is weary of war, weary of pouring money into the bottomless Vietnamese pit. Thieu must insure that the aid continues despite the stiffening American reluctance...