Word: totals
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...short, the President is sticking with the formula that he has applied all along: more of the same. Last week the Pentagon announced that its April draft would total 48,000 men, including 4,000 for the Marines-the biggest one-month call-up since October 1966. For all of 1968, inductions are expected to total 302,000 men, an increase of more than 70,000 over last year. In addition, there were reports that 40,000 or more reservists would be called, that 130,000 would be put on special alert and that the President would mobilize some National...
...such ambiguity surrounds Rafferty. He is a super-Republican, a superpatriot, a superconservative. He won his nonpartisan educational post in 1962 by 237,384 votes; he was re-elected in 1966 with a record tally of 2,925,401, or 1,580,000 more than the combined total garnered by his three opponents. A lifetime educator, Rafferty built his popularity on his harsh criticism of progressive education, which he calls "slobism" and the "fraud of the century...
...Negro neighborhoods. Jackson's request to examine the company's employment rolls was refused. Next Sunday, pastors from 100 Negro pulpits urged a boycott of the dairy's products; by Thursday, the company had capitulated, offering ghetto dwellers 44 new or upgraded jobs-20% of its total employment...
There is every indication that the situation is growing progressively worse. The 142 work stoppages called by public employees in 1966 exceeded the total for the four previous years combined; informed estimates of the 1967 figure place it at upwards of 250. Dr. Sam M. Lambert, executive secretary of the National Education Association, which represents one million teachers and administrators, has predicted 250 strikes by teachers alone next year. Says Pennsylvania University Industry Professor George W. Taylor, principal source of New York State's public-employee labor law: "It's going to be a mess for generations...
...Then they got another, and I got another. And so on. They eventually wore us down and won 7-4." By then, packed nose, blood-filled eyes and all, Hull had assisted on one goal and scored three of his own-for a record-tying total of eight in the series...