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...head giant is undergoing a reincarnation in some other forms. One House is planning an opera, another has produced some short plays at the Ex, and there will be the usual quota of musicals...
...zone for a new Brooklyn junior high school in such a way that its pupils were equally divided among Negroes, Puerto Ricans and "others," which is the board's euphemistic term for non-Puerto Rican whites. But four white parents claimed that the plan set up a racial quota system that violated a state education law against school racial discrimination. Not so, countered the board, arguing that the so-called quota was designed only to balance the new school at the beginning. After that, the school would be open to any child of any race who lived...
...review and plot progress. They study polls, preview ad drives, advise on policy, and discuss what to do about the chronic shortage of campaign funds. Already, the top advisers have analyzed past election returns in sufficient detail to assign every county in the U.S. (total: 3,131) a quota of Goldwater votes to deliver. Their three-phase plan for precinct-level activity: 1) canvass every household for Goldwater votes, 2) help those voters get to the polls, 3) watch the polling places so as to be sure that the votes are tallied accurately...
This technique contrasts with the long-held theory that interviewers should reach a quota of persons in various categories-poor people, rich people, Republicans, Democrats, etc.-in the same ratio that they exist in the region studied. Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's favorite pollster, uses randomization, but employs computers to spot-check the reliability of his sampling. If he suspects that his polls did not accurately reflect certain groups, he runs cards, on which the basic characteristics of key election precincts are punched, through a computer until it turns up a precinct that coincides with the types of voters...
...economically depressed South Bend, Ind., where foreign-born and first-generation Americans make up 23% of the population, Miller assailed any liberalization of immigration quotas. He declared that a Johnson Administration bill would "open the floodgates for any and all who wish to come and find work in this country" and would increase immigration next year "threefold." Actually, Miller was wrong on what the Administration's bill, now pending in House and Senate subcommittees, would do. It would drop nationality quotas, easing immigration for persons of needed skills, but would retain an overall quota. It would allow an increase...