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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Somehow organizations such as MNC and Referendum 70 managed to keep themselves busy all summer, though it certainly wasn't by dispatching college students to campaigns. Referendum 70 was particularly imaginative in finding things to do, swamping Studds headquarters with suggested media campaigns, organization charts and, what proved most popular, a "pert" chart detailing procedures for canvassing and election day (Sample: "Many elections have been won or lost on election...
...Real Majority confirms the notion that America's salvation lies outside her electoral politics. The political process is primarily a closed system, and change will have to come from the outside. It will have to be movements, not candidates, that chart the consciousness of the seventies...
...present the U.S. holds a lead in heavy bombers and SLBMs (sea-launched ballistic missiles). The Soviet Union is ahead in the number of intercontinental, medium-and intermediate-range ballistic missiles and medium bombers (see chart). Two problems that could complicate the final equation, however, have not yet come up for discussion: > Both sides are moving ahead with the development of MIRV (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles), a system that arms a single rocket with several warheads. Its deployment, undetectable by most monitoring procedures, could make a final agreement impossible. >The Nixon plan provides for parity in delivery systems...
...lesson: the need for sensible national antipollution standards to keep states from lowering their own standards when competing for industry. Another: many of Vermont's new laws, while too vague in some respects, are also too weak. Air-pollution offenses are measured visually against a fume-color chart that hardly applies to nighttime emissions. The laws controlling water pollution fail to set precise standards of water quality and thus cannot be enforced...
...incensed by the charge that they have caused inflation; in fact, they are its chief victims. The average weekly wage of factory hands and clerks rose from $95 five years ago to $121 in September. But in real purchasing power, adjusted for inflation, it has actually declined (see chart page 72). Over the last decade, according to the Labor Department, the financial needs of a family with growing children have risen by 61%. In the same years, the average earnings of skilled workers have increased only 41%, compared with 64% for blacks as a group and 61% for executives...