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Gutman disagrees. He argues that Moynihan's false history of black home life led to a dangerous policy recommendation: the Moynihan report's startling call for the Government to help restructure black families. Though no program was spelled out in the report, Moynihan wanted to shore up the role of males in the black family. One of his ideas: every able-bodied black man should have a job, even if it meant reducing employment of black women. But Gutman thinks that because the severe problems of black families go back only to the Depression, they...
Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
...guest of the Plymouth Colony pilgrims, his tribe occupied an area that ran from Cape Cod north almost to Boston. Within 50 years, land-greedy colonists had forced the Indians into a corner of their territory, some 20,000 acres in an area known as Mashpee on the southwestern shore of Cape Cod. After another two centuries, the state of Massachusetts decided to turn the reservation into a township, and the Indians naively sold off their land, bit by bit. Today 500 Wampanoag are still living in Mashpee (total pop. 2,500), but new housing developments now surround the salt...
...Sunday magazine section called "Beacon." Its first cover story suggested that Beacon would be governed by the same sort of news judgment that graces the Herald's front page. Entitled "The Girl Next Door is a Stripper," the article details the lifestyle of a woman who lives in North Shore suburban Beverly and works at the Two O'Clock Lounge in Boston's combat zone. Surprisingly--after its play on the cover--the article is fairly sensitive, but certainly did not enhance the newspaper's image in feminists' eyes...
...people on the Eastern Shore of Maryland are too busy soaking tourists, raising chickens--the Eastern Shore is Frank Perdue's stomping ground--and insisting that they be made the 51st state to pay any attention to the Orioles...