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This year, another element has come forth to champion the cause of substandard public schooling. In a recent statement, fifteen top Catholic ecclesiastics declared that they will oppose all Federal aid to elementary and high schools unless it includes assistance to private (a cuphemism for "parochial") institutions as well. Since this group included all five U.S. cardinals, its views will probably not go unheeded by the nation's 35 million Catholics...
Monticello is an average U.S. city, populated by people of average earnings, moderate IQ, and substandard life expectancy, but one where life is lived on a hyped-up emotional level that would compare favorably with Leopoldville or Elsinore. Crime, litigation, fraud, false arrest, domestic tragedy and incurable disease are commoner than the common cold. In fact, as Keats said of London, Hell is a city much like Monticello...
...enormous economic value. He points out that the chronically unemployed are largely the uneducated and unskilled-the economy has jobs waiting to be filled, but only for the educated and the skilled. He sees in education the explanation of the "paradox of persistent poverty amidst growing plenty"; substandard education, he says, "dwarfs any other cause of poverty...
...Jack Kennedy looked over the land, overlooked prosperity, and seemed to see a U.S. shrunk even from the Khrushchev vision ("a limping horse"-see FOREIGN NEWS). "Seven million have an income of less than $2,000," he proclaimed to the New York politicos. "There are 15 million on a substandard diet; 17 million are not covered even by the $1 minimum wage. We have more than 3,000,000 unemployed workers with jobless benefits averaging less than $31 a week." In Fresno, Humphrey took up the same theme: "We cannot, in good conscience, enjoy our prosperity when...
...battle of the bottle is one of the business world's trickiest problems. Every year U.S. industry loses more than $1 billion from the absenteeism, accidents and substandard work of 2,000,000 problem drinkers. Not long ago the typical company damned the alcoholic worker as a weak-willed degenerate, and fired him instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told...