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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for professionally trained business agents, which BGMA officers say was behind last night's decision, has been felt by members of some of the other independent unions at Harvard. Some observers predict that Harvard Printing Office employees, now represented by the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, will seek to break away and affiliate themselves with an AFL-CIO union...
Rockefeller also promises caution in tackling the state's many other problems. He plans ultimately to seek wide-ranging reforms-among them, a constitutional convention, a comprehensive merit system for state employees, continuing audits of state agencies and improvements in both academic and vocational education-but says that he will keep his campaign pledge not to raise taxes during his first term. He insists that he will force the resignations of some Faubus appointees who have fixed terms, but has praised several able incumbents. It was, after all, Democratic votes that elected him, and he will still need Democratic...
...neighborhoods where they found the old customs, the old language, and relatives or friends to get them jobs. Today the U.S. receives fewer than 300,000 immigrants a year (even so, the rate is higher than that of any other nation in the world), and they still tend to seek out members of their own nationality. But for the most part, they find these in a state of established confidence that is far different from an embattled community simply welcoming reinforcements. Even the old neighborhoods are breaking up. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade points out: "Apart from the nonwhite...
Above all, as one analyst puts it, "fear is disappearing." Save for the Negroes and the Puerto Ricans, most minorities no longer feel beleaguered. And therefore their need to cling together and seek out a protector who will tell them what to do is diminishing. Says Illinois State Representative Abner Mikva: "The Polish community in Chicago, for instance, has progressed to the point where there are no longer specifically Polish interests to be protected or promoted. If middle-class Poles are unhappy about the Democrats, it is because of civil rights or welfarism as threats to their economic wellbeing." They...
...they are only generally answerable to it, and have no links with the executive. Their access to official papers is virtually unlimited, permitting them thorough review of administrative actions. One result is that they defend officials as well as citizens and knowledgeably dismiss most complaints as unfounded. Though all seek justice for individuals, their overriding goal is better administration...