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...hand, Sizer points out, "Plans to strengthen the police and National Guard are now more in the Federal rhetoric than those to strengthen the schools...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Urban Crisis Is Jolting Ed School, Dean Reports | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...opposes the Vietnam war? The Peace Corps is funded by the Congress because it is to the American people without doubt the most popular from of foreign involvement. To reject the Peace Corps on the grounds of the war is to restrict the American experience to war, not to strengthen the belief in peace; to obstruct progress in public opinion far more than to obstruct...

Author: By Russell Schwartz, | Title: The Peace Corps Replies: A Project Director Responds to Criticism | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...visit by Dow. A petition circulated at registration yesterday and signed by over 400 students, according to Mark Dyen '70 who helped collect the signatures, calls on President Pusey to ban the visits of Dow and the Institute for Defense Analyses. This petition, Dyen said, was intended to "strengthen the hand" of those on the Council who are in favor of recommending the ban. Dow is scheduled to recruit on February 23, under the auspices of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans. The October Dow visit was sponsored by the Chemistry Department...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Council to Tackle Dow Recruitment, Hershey's Memo | 2/6/1968 | See Source »

Named to succeed Schultze was an other New Economist-Charles J. Zwick, 41, a former Harvard professor and Assistant Budget Director for two years. An expert in Government reorganization, Zwick aims to consolidate and strengthen the programs that Johnson has won from Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Manner of Their Going | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...effort to strengthen the economy, Castro has tried one fruitless scheme after another. He built a new, modern commercial-fishing fleet of 300 boats, then found that most Cubans simply do not care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: A Time for Diversion | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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