Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson, drawing heavily on the recommendations of his advisory commission (TIME, March 10), last week proposed to Congress some sweeping revisions of the system, notably: 1) inducting younger men first rather than the oldest eligible for service, 2) ending deferments for most graduate students and giving serious consideration to withdrawing undergraduate deferments, and 3) substituting a lottery scheme for the present selection by birth date...
Frustrated Younger Leaders...
...SOME of the above remarks suggest, the younger leaders have encountered serious problems of upward mobility. The trends of the mid-fifties suggested that the supreme elite was aware of such problems and had arranged and structured the various hierarchies in such a manner as to allow for rational advancement by younger Party members. Then the crisis created by the Great Leap failures curbed these processes. But since the "crisis" has now persisted for approximately half of the life of the CPR, one can hardly maintain that the orderly promotion of younger Party cadre was only temporarily delayed. Rather...
...policy-making responsibilities. Moreover, given the advanced age of the Politburo members, the near future may well witness many new top leaders with only the most limited experience in the problems of decision-making. The frustrations and uncertainties regarding mobility of careers must also be a concern of even younger men. For the ambitious young Chinese in his early twenties, there are only cloudy indicators as to the most profitable path to advance his career. Should he, for example, join the army or the CCP hierarchy? And should he stress Party loyalty or technical competence (i.e., in the Chinese Communist...
Harvard proposed instead that the schools set up "a distinct hierachy among teachers" in which a few top men -- like senior professors -- would earn the highest salary (perhaps $15,000). They would be responsible for training younger teachers, a job in which schools of education should have only a secondary role, he said. Sizer also briefly attacked much of what is taught in "independent" schools (and in others) as "irrelevant." The time spent in such traditional subjects as English instruction should be slashed to make way for new ones, such as Far Eastern history, he urged...