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...What Do You Want?" The upshot of the Mississippi march may well be to harden positions on both sides of the black-power quarrel. The militants can be expected to cite the savagery of white Mississippians as proof that Negroes can hardly expect much in the way of help from whites. The moderates can be expected to counter, as Ralph Abernathy, one of King's aides, did recently, with the argument that "if the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is carried to its ultimate conclusion, we are eventually going to have...
...against the other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike involving 15 northern California painters' locals. The upshot: a settlement giving the area's painters $6.51 hourly in pay and fringe benefits, highest scale...
...million to train 845,000. Exhilarated by the program's success last summer, the President announced plans to turn Head Start into a year-round program for 350,000 needy children, only to discover that it would have cost three times as much money as was available. The upshot was an administrative nightmare. Communities deluged Washington with applications, and OEO had to reject or pigeonhole scores of them...
...Washington bank, two of his three roommates loyally volunteered character-reference letters to help offset the stigma of being an ex-FBI man at 25. The third refused to help Carter; instead, he told his superiors about his friends' action, which also violates the FBI code. The upshot was that all three-including the informer-were pressed to resign because none had reported Carter's original indiscretion...
...seem in agreement over how many letters the mechanism needs to function effectively. Dean Monro has encouraged letters of preference, saying the "system depends strongly on them," while Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, has said, "The system will work well if the number of letters is small." The upshot is that the Committee will key its definition of "substantial" on the number of letters its receives, but the freshmen will remain in the dark until after they have already made the decision whether or not to write...