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...fail to be useful and begin to have the opposite effect. Ghetto violence has stimulated fear and resentment in the white majority, whose representatives in Congress have stolidly resisted all calls for the dramatic federal programs that the ghettos so desperately need. The campus rioting may well produce a spate of repressive legislation. Apart from legislation, the riots are also producing an indignation that is in danger of being directed not only at the minority of extremists but at all campus reformers and at the "young" in general...
...first full week of the spring semester on many campuses, and students responded to the symbolic change of seasons by provoking a spate of violent clashes with authorities. Almost everywhere, the "confrontations," as the students like to call them, were precipitated by the now familiar demands of black students and their white sympathizers. They were asking for segregated student facilities, more courses in black culture, more black students and teachers, and a greater voice in the hiring and firing of faculty. Even where efforts are being made to meet their demands, they are still unsatisfied. In some cases, uncompromising campus...
...determined that his speech would be different. All too many keynotes, he found, had been "half diatribe, tearing down the opposition party, and half breast beating, or boasting about accomplishments of the past." He had put uncounted hours into the speech since early June, soliciting ideas from a spate of party leaders, trying out phrases in speeches all over the Northwest...
...less prestigious project. The airliner's development cost has soared in four years from $790 million to $1.73 billion, and technical problems have already forced postponement of its maiden flight from last February to September at the earliest. Last week the expensive settlement terms of France's spate of strikes raised new doubts about the Concorde's future...
...took three months and the death of Martin Luther King to push them through. They came finally with a faculty vote on April 10. In important ways, the spate of proposals constituted a real break-through in the School's urban posture. Voting to recruit minority group students, the faculty struck down the School's traditional definition of competence, admitting for the first time that race and ghetto experience are important. "The way we've been recruiting minority group students," Sizer said right after the April 10 meeting, "was the wrong...