Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relationship between black students and Harvard administrators at this point was more a confrontation of wills than a meeting of minds. Initial Afro demands--a quota system built into the admissions policy, an endowed chair for a black professor, a rapid increase in the number of lower-level black faculty members, a Concentration in Afro-American experience--were immediately rejected...
Since most medical schools have some sort of a quota system for awarding places between researchists and "regulars," the tendency won't be unchecked. But it will be there, and it will hurt. For a country that steals doctors from India, England, and Africa obviously needs all the practicing physicians its medical schools can produce...
...with boycotts and scolded by civil rights groups, sponsors have responded by doubling the number of integrated commercials in the past year to 5% of the total number of ads made. Rightly noting that this figure is still too low, General Foods has set for itself an even higher quota of 15%. The search for black talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply...
...Rockefeller and the Indians for its Broadway bow.) Mr. Howerd could probably be quite funny, if he were not hampered by such handicaps as the script and direction. Perhaps if Mr. Shevelove let his star run wild and ignore the play, Sassafras would draw more laughs than its present quota...
Lifting Gloom. What happened? The explanation lies mainly in an unexpectedly sharp reduction in monthly draft calls (the September quota was 12,200, compared with 44,000 last May) and the sluggishness of the Selective Service bureaucracy. Local draft boards did not begin reclassifying deferred students until June. A month's delay is allowed for appeals. And, while physical exams usually take another month to process, all physicals were suspended in July and August on grounds of a paper work and funding squeeze. Some boards are also waiting until present deferments run out, most in September and October...