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...reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard respectfully, with no jeering. There were Maoists, Trotskyites, ordinary Communists, anarchists and "situationists"-a tag for those without preconceived ideologies who judge each proposition as it arises...
...always been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision to build a strong pressure group out of the poor of the country, strong enough to compete with the interests that run the nation now. His idea was to bring that rag-tag pressure group to Washington, to somehow "pressure" Congress into recognizing poverty as a problem and more important, into recognizing poor people as a political force...
...Labor did work hard, and so did the party leadership's subsequent choice. Red-haired John Joyce Gilligan, 47, a former Congressman and Cincinnati city councilman, whose brains, liberal views and Democratic loyalty prompted the campaign tag, "the real Democrat," campaigned assiduously, while Lausche-in his own words-sometimes "fiddled around...
...There is a transition problem of converting to peace," admits CEA Chairman Arthur Okun, "but we think we can handle that." One reason for his optimism is that for all its high price tag, the $29 billion-a-year Viet Nam war absorbs only 3% of the total national output of goods and services-only half the proportion consumed by the Kore an War. The total defense budget today accounts for only 9% of gross national product, compared with 41% at the height of World War II and 13% at the Korean peak. More important, the end of the Korean...
Unfortunately, Humphrey has no guarantee that the followers will tag along with the leaders. In fact, conservative Southerners, union members, and black Americans of all classes--to take three blocs--are likely to split their vote this year without regard to the positions staked out by their leaders. More important, perhaps, it is unclear that the so-called leaders Humphrey has rallied to his banner can be considered political powers any more...