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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Methodical Man. A stocky, serious six-footer who graduated from Yale ('52) and earned both law and business degrees at the University of Michigan, Parsons is such a methodical type that he draws up a written budget of time to be allotted to his wife, his three children and his business. It was only natural that just before leaving school, he drew up a list of cities in which he might like to practice corporate law. Detroit was low on the list because its "environment" was poor. But its law firms were first-rate, and eventually Parsons managed...
...that they do not make students feel really happy about attending. Take for instance a Roxbury Negro in Boston English High School. He doesn't feel that this educational program is geared for him. Every day he sees people like Mrs. Hicks who are not exactly for him. That type of thing does not exactly leave a healthy attitude...
...half of the reason The Freedom Budget will not have the support of the New Left. The other half is that The Budget's advocates will use conventional coalition politics to secure their ends. "The Freedom Budget is important not only in itself, but also because of the type of political action it calls for to bring about its proposals. It has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO . . . , by leaders of every major civil rights organization in America, leading religious, liberal, democratic radical, and other organizations, as well as by many academics," says the literature...
...felt that it had "some impact, but how great an impact I couldn't say" on the changes made by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in the awarding of defense contracts. "It didn't outsell Earle Stanley Gardner in the Pentagon bookstore, but it sold well for its type of book," Peck commented...
...audio-oriented type who can summon up his French accent and repeat the title aloud several times will be quick to grasp the fact that this slim and learned volume is nothing more than Mother Goose rhymes. The odd effect is created by arranging French words to form homonymic approximations of the familiar English rhymes; the literal translation is always something wildly nonsensical. Thus "Jack and Jill...