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...like a football fan who has watched New Year's Day bowl games played out across the time zones. The amount of money spent, the emotion and brain power diverted from the business of governing, make two reforms imperative. Campaign spending must be curbed or equalized, to end the scandalous situation in which, more and more often, political office in the U.S. is a rich man's prize. Also, campaigns should be considerably shortened, preferably to a civilized few weeks as in Britain, instead of being virtually year-round affairs...
...minority. A third of the American work force is female: 42% of the women 16 and older work. Yet there is only one economic indicator in which women consistently lead men, and that is the number living in poverty. In 1968, the median salary for full-time year-round workers was $7,870 for white males, $5,314 for non-white men, $4,580 for white women and $3,487 for nonwhite women. The median wage for full-time women workers is 58.2% of that for men. Translated into educational levels, women make half of what...
...statement released in the afternoon, OBU recommended instead that black students channel their efforts into projects to build the black community such as the Newark election, the Cambridge Black Liberation Front Project for a year-round Black People's library, and the May 19 Solidarity Day Celebration of Malcolm X's birthday...
...contract will call for a minimum of eight one-hour shows beginning in July. If they succeed, the boys could be moved into the ABC year-round lineup in January 1971. For onetime top-ten TV headliners to gamble on a summer-replacement audition requires "tremendous guts," marvels one ABC executive. Tommy himself admits that some of his show-biz colleagues might consider the deal "demeaning," and that off-season substitute series are "generally so much sheep...
...That's a big gyp." was the immediate reaction of Jim Fallows '70, outgoing CRIMSON President. "We've put out that summer news for the past 10 or 15 years. Mainly on the basis of that, we bought our own press and hired our own printers. We wouldn't have done that if we hadn't expected them to have something to do year-round...