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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accomplish)?; for the ghettoes he recommends black capitalism (what's wrong with a black elite as long there is a black working class? It undoubtedly is even more efficient). However, when SDS raises issues that challenge the role of Harvard as an elite funnel, and the expansion to support this role at the expense of the working class, Calkins is carefully evasive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/6/1969 | See Source »

Even more useful than the money, perhaps, was the President's firm support of some relatively new methods of ganging up on the Mafia, which controls most of the nation's gambling, loan-sharking, and drug distribution. The organized criminal, said the President, "corrupts our governing institutions and subverts our democratic processes. For him, the moral and legal subversion of our society is a lifelong and lucrative profession." The Government's traditionally oblique line of attack used to be income tax violations, but big-time hoodlums have learned to keep their books in order. In the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: Ganging Up on the Mob | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...April, 1963, the PACE report was ready. The report presented a depressing picture of Cleveland's schools, and it blamed public apathy for many of the problems. The school system was "steadily deteriorating," the report said, and the solution was more community support -- and much more community money...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...public support for the general PACE idea rose, Calkins rolled out some other specific plans in 1964 and 1965. At a panel discussion, for example, he suggested merging Cleveland's neighborhood high schools into a city-wide system in order to expose white children to "people of other races, religions, and economic levels...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...city schools' fundamental financial problem was clear: the Cleveland school district had a lower tax base to draw from than the suburban schools did, and Cleveland had to pay more of its tax-base revenue for police and firemen. There was simply too little money left over to support any kind of adequate city school system...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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