Word: classes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...produce the muddle in which man finds himself. God did not bring about the wars, the poverty, the diseases, the endless woes that afflict the human race. God did not sponsor the greed, the class division and the racial hatreds that seethe about us like unhealthy geysers. Let us not blame God for the corruption and callousness of public officials, for sickening slums, for thousands of drug addicts, for selfishness and stupidity...
...this time there is almost an established class of commissioners who are tapped repeatedly for service. IBM Board Chairman Thomas Watson Jr and former Xerox Executive Sol Linowitz are favorite choices to represent big business. Walter Reuther and George Meany speak for labor, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, for Roman Catholics and Whitney Young Jr. and Roy Wilkins for Negroes -although not necessarily for militant ones. The process of forming a commission reminds Sociologist Daniel Bell of a Communist front group. Though the purposes are clearly different, both bodies try to achieve luster by seeking...
...domestic adviser and the architect of his heroin diplomacy, who dwelt on the subject with law-enforcement authorities and diplomatic officials, including Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. The other event had an impact imaginable only in a nation that has never had a serious drug problem. In August, two middle-class French youths, a 21-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, died of heroin overdoses in towns along the Riviera. The publicity from that case and the awareness that addiction was becoming a problem in France jolted officialdom into action...
...Gandhi has no doubt about the effectiveness of her approach among the masses of India's voters. Privately, she seems aware that too rapid a shift toward socialism would damage India's fragile economy and alienate its budding middle class, and she has her foot firmly on the brake pedal. In public, her commitment to socialism knows no bounds-"not because it is a glamorous word," as she said in Bombay, "but because there is no other path for the solution to these problems. The question is, can we do it?" For Indira's half a billion...
...notes on baboons, which gives students a thorough look at what he observed and how he arrived at his conclusions. Another is "The Observer's Handbook," a series of charts that the child uses to study human conflict, play and teaching-learning. In studying conflict, for example, the class quietly watches kindergarten children for half an hour, observing how fights start, how they end and how they can be prevented...