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...parlous condition of the nation's 3,200,000 farm workers has received little attention in the past compared with urban poverty, but both problems will be covered in a new program scheduled for publication this week. In it, the Administration will outline its specific proposals for the use of tax incentives to promote job-producing industrial activity in poverty areas. The White House has also directed the Labor and Agriculture departments to study the feasibility of extending the Taft-Hartley Act to cover farm workers. This move, long advocated by the A.F.L.C.I. O., would give them the right...
...murder weapon. Fitts also noted that the day before the shooting, Sirhan went to the San Gabriel Valley Gun Range for target practice. While on the range, one Mike Soccoman asked Sirhan what he intended to do with the small Iver Johnson .22-cal. pistol. Sirhan said he could use it for hunting, adding: "It could kill a dog." Ballistics evidence revealed that the fatal shot was fired into Kennedy's head from a distance of approximately one inch. Later, one of the prosecutors, Lynn Compton, said that Sirhan had "stalked" Kennedy for days...
...Rosovsky report recommended that a black student center be provided as "something of a counterpart to Hillel House, the Newman Center, or the International Center," and urged that the University "use [its] good offices in securing and financing a building and providing continued support to the activities of such a social and cultural center...
What is the final use of these figures? According to Bowles, they are "to explain basic statistical concepts and to provide an indication about the class structure of universities. . . ." One can accept the implied conclusions, yet they do not follow at all from the survey taken. I would suggest that this "survey" shows instead how any determined statistician--whether radical or reactionary--can find facts and an interpretation which will fit his predetermined ideas. This is a sad comment on the instructors of Soc Sci 125--and on the increasingly overt politicization of education at Harvard. Jess Hungate...
...Broder piece on political reporting is another example of the liberal guilt-responsibility phenomenon. Broder makes virtually no point at all in 13 pages of rambling, except that political reporters have a lot of power and they do not use it very responsibly--they are careless and make mistakes. Broder is writing in response to a "credibility gap"--"the open skepticism and even derision with which they are viewed by their customers." His justification of the gap is that reporters simply have a great deal of power and sometimes they hurt people with...