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...Catholics and Jews and a scattering of liberal professors, was in attendance. The key figures were Dr. Robert Spike, Executive Director of the Commission on Religion and Race which had been established in 1963 in the midst of the Birmingham crisis, and Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, a young Negro sociologist and minister, then with the New York Protestant Council, and who a month later succeeded Spike in the national post. The larger purpose of the meeting was to propose that an "Economic Development Budget for Equal Rights in America," to cost $32 billion per year, be placed on the agenda...
Insulated by an ever-lengthening edu cational process from the instant adult hood they seek, pressed by modern change and technology into a precocious appreciation - often misguided -of the world they face, they are amazingly resilient. Job Corps Sociologist David Gottlieb, 36, who was himself a dropout, finds in the Now People "a certain fidelity and loyalty that older people don't have." American G.I.s in South Viet Nam, for example, evince little envy or disapproval of their draft-exempt brothers-on-campus at home, despite student protests against their sacrifice. "This is an experience...
...fact, as Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset observes, they are "caught up in the myth that J.F.K. was a radical President, and would have done all sorts of things, bypassing the older generation." By contrast, the Now People almost universally mock Lyndon Johnson -as Leonard laquinta, 22, of Kenosha, Wis., puts it, for his "bluffs, come-on gimmicks and intellectual dishonesty...
...University of Chicago's Center for Urban Studies, an eleven-man faculty headed by Sociologist Philip Hauser is studying, among other things, the effect of urban renewal on small businesses, probing the finances of public housing to see if the money is most efficiently used. A Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, created with Ford Foundation funds by former M.I.T. President Julius Stratton and former Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy -who, coincidentally, now hold the two top jobs at the Ford Foundation-advises a metropolitan council embracing 78 towns and cities. It gets so many requests for help...
...Paul has made it clear that he will maintain the rule of wifeless priests, a surprisingly large number of clerics think that some modification is in order. This month Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that priests should have the choice of marriage or celibacy; 31% might marry if the church would allow...