Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Tokenism. The motive is part altruism, part profit. In many cities, poor and unskilled nonwhites now constitute almost the only untapped or underused reservoir of labor. Moreover, businessmen recognize that the economic health of cities is vital to the health of their own companies. The recent push by U.S. business to employ "hardcore jobless" has moved beyond tokenism to a substantial commitment to help quiet the smoldering volcano of urban unrest...
Negro college administrators must change their attitudes and actions or face a persistent no confidence vote from a majority of their student bodies. They will have to come to realize, as their students already have, that their vital yet vulnerable position in the Southern power structure can not be a neutral one. Southern black colleges will have to come to grips with this question and take a posture more in line with contemporary black student thoughts and concerns. Without this change, the schools will be torn internally, with students and administrators working at cross purposes...
Throughout this vital incident, vital not just to Harvard but to many of the nation's colleges who themseles might have followed Harvard's lead in dealing with student political disobedience, as far as is known, no one in authority consulted directly with the great pool of psychological talent available to the University. Further, out of that fateful faculty meeting, there came one great advance: the faculty voted to form a joint student-faculty committee to consider the whole question of student relationship to the college. When the makeup of this tremendously important committee was announced, no psychologist was included...
Viewed from the gallery, the U.S. Senate falls woefully short of its own billing as the greatest deliberative body on earth. Vital issues are very often resolved casually after pawky debates; speakers drone on in an echo chamber of vacant desks. Delay and confusion abound. Last week Senators tugged valiantly at their togas and amended the rule book in the name of statesmanly decorum...
...Main Threat. Around Saigon, the Communists last week began overrunning U.S. and South Vietnamese guard posts on the city's approaches. All week long there were sporadic fights around the vital Binh Loi bridge outside Saigon as the V.C. tried to cut the capital's link with the major U.S. bases of Long Binh and Bien Hoa to the northeast. U.S. intelligence placed three enemy divisions no more than two nights' march from the capital: the 7th NVA and the 5th V.C. divisions to the north and west, and the 9th V.C. Division to the northeast...