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MODIGLIANI defines socio-economic status (SES) in terms of four variables--education, occupation, race, and standard of living. He found higher SES to be positively associated with a greater rejection of disengagement from Korea, while the lower socio-economic strata were distinctly more "dovish" in the sense of being more amenable to disengagement...
...while persons lower in SES are thus not exactly "nasty, brutish, and short," it would be a mistake to idealize their position. For Modigliani uncovers a second statistic: there is no correlation at all, positive or negative, between SES and support for escalation, either in Korea or Vietnam. He points out that a desire for disengagement does not necessarily preclude a desire for escalation as a means to end the war quickly: the approval of military escalation is uniformly distributed among all socio-economic strata. Put simply, support for escalation and support for withdrawal are not mutually exclusive. This fact...
WITH TWO independent sets of attitudes (isolationism-interventionism, and trust-distrust), it is possible to subdivide the Korean War public into four groups, and then make the all-important correlations to SES. Modigliani does this, listing the groups in the order of their socioeconomic rank: 1) distrusting interventionists--want to win the war, favor escalation; 2) trusting interventionists--adhere to present policy; 3) distrusting isolationists--desire to end the war quickly, one way or the other; 4) trusting isolationists--favor an immediate withdrawal...
...SES has already put together an experimental 100-h.p. steam engine with support from Mobil Oil, which is interested in the lubricating problems of steamers. SES President Richard Morse headed a 1967 federal study group, which concluded that a return to the steam engine was indeed possible. Morse says that theoretically a steamer could use any kind of fuel, "even camel dung, if there were enough camels," but he prefers kerosene. The fuel is not exploded inside the cylinder as it is in the internal-combustion engine but is burned in an external combustion chamber at atmospheric pressure...
...Tanks. Under the terms of the new contract, SES has a year to produce a design for a 100-h.p. engine that could power a five-passenger car. American Motors has agreed to do an engineering analysis and help in adapting the engine for automotive use. To ensure that the car will not resemble a tank, the entire propulsion system cannot weigh more than 1,600 lbs., v. 1,300 lbs. for a conventional medium-sized car. Yet the system must be able to thrust the car from zero to 60 m.p.h. in 13 sec., drive...