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White "backlash" is an important new force in Wisconsin politics. The 1960 census listed 2.4 per cent of the state's population as "non-white." Over 80 per cent of this group is Negro, with 15 per cent Menomonie Indian. Non-whites make up 3.2 per cent of urban areas and 6.7 per cent of central cities. Since 70,000 of the state's Negroes live in such cities, and only 5,000 in the rest of the state, the race issue has not yet confronted many Wisconsinites. One-tenth of the counties have no significant Negro population...
...score of Viet Cong paraded through the streets singing songs and waving flags and shouting: "This is the Liberation Force come to liberate the city! Please be compatriots! Help us liberate the city!" Two-and three-man teams with the same message went from door to door, like census takers, asking for the names of local police and government officials, the addresses of ARVN and government families. Those they got?or found?they killed on the spot...
Since Carnegie's time, the census of U.S. charitable foundations has described a near-perpendicular climb: up from two dozen in 1900 to more than 19,000 today, with new foundations spawning at the rate of 1,500 a year. Together, they control assets valued at anywhere from $20 billion to $100 billion, depending on who is making the estimate; last year they gave $1.25 billion to a myriad of causes...
...pausing. Later this month, the nation will pass two other important statistical bench marks. At midmonth, the gross national product will top the $800 billion level; the $1 trillion mark is certain to be reached in the early 1970s. And on Nov. 20, at precisely 11 a.m., the Census Bureau's population clock, which records an additional American every 141 seconds, will register 200 million...
Anti-Bugging. Westin also warns about the polygraph (lie detector) and personality tests that are sometimes required for employment. Worse still, he feels, could be the impact of computers. Already Americans leave a detailed trail of vital data about themselves-insurance questionnaires, loan applications, census forms, employment applications, tax returns, military and school records. If all of these are gathered into one Orwellian information bank, as some officials have proposed, a man's life may well be available at the punch of a button. When all financial transactions begin to be carried out by a universal credit-card...