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...Harvard Student Union scheduled a rally for the morning of April 20, 1940, and arranged for Michael J. Quill to address the gathering. (This is the same Michael J. Quill who died earlier this year leading the New York transit worker's strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...
...words of Thomas Jefferson, as "the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns." Washington may provide the cash and the broad concept, but after that it is the states' job to fashion effective programs in such critical areas as welfare, housing, air and water pollution and commuter transit...
...corrugating the painting with Vs in relief, and painting each arm of the Vs separately, Agam can reveal two distinct acutely angled surfaces to viewers at the same time. Carefully coloring, choosing geometric forms and calculating the visual bias, Agam can produce picket-fence panoramas which can transit through 180° as the viewer walks by, from black to a myriad rainbow of abstract constructivist shapes to white...
...legislatures can go on sniping at the Republican governors, who can go on winning elections with the help of heavy advertising and good-guy images. But meanwhile the states are missing the opportunity to initiate new programs to attack the still-unsolved problems of the poverty cycle, education, mass transit, and housing segregation. The money will be there. as the Vietnam war overheats the economy, most state revenues will continue to rapidly without new taxes. Present levels of spending on education can be maintained as the ratio of the children to tax payers declines...
...town coverage for which it won its prize presents the biggest problems for the Times. With 4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping, interlocking governments, Los Angeles is a city editor's nightmare. To cover the sprawl, Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas now assigns reporters to metropolitan-wide specialties-rapid transit, smog, property taxes. In its ceaseless search for talent, the Times has the hardest time locating competent copy editors, who are now in short supply across the nation. To fill the gap, the paper is about to embark on a program of recruiting copy editors straight from college and training...