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...hard to know and perhaps irrelevant to consider the extent to which the wide gap between the economic needs of Vietnam and its programs in the universities is due to the nation's preoccupaiton with war, the shortage of resources, the relative newness of its institutions, or to the academic customs that have been inherited by the country. Whatever its root causes, all Faculties except Medicine, Dentistry and Pedagogy have graduated less than five per cent of their total enrollment. The survey team interprets this as an indication of a waste of manpower, traceable in part to present university policies...
...experts in their field-whether it be computers (see U.S. BUSINESS) or toxicology (see MEDICINE) or catechetics (see RELIGION) or sailing-and turning it into a story that a non-expert can understand is a facet of our job that we consider of major importance. Bridging that language gap between specialist and reader often, if not always, can be done best by people who are not necessarily experts in the field under discussion...
Definition Gap. The problem is mostly one of definition. Johnson and Weaver defined aid to the "cities" as any federal expenditure in any community with a population over 2,500-not omitting $14.6 billion for such items as Social Security and railroad-retirement payments. Katzenbach somehow managed to include in his sum federal grants for agricultural-experiment stations, commercial fisheries, and the systematization of weights and measures. Schultze was a more scrupulous bookkeeper, but even his more modest reckoning includes $2.1 billion for construction of urban expressways, which hardly help and often visibly harm the poor whose neighborhoods...
...There is a credibility gap beginning to emerge," says Young, "and there are forces saying that the cause is hopeless, that American white people are so selfish that they will remain silent in this crisis, or that the American white people are congenitally immoral and so bankrupt that it is futile even to try to bring about change. I don't believe this, but not because I think that a large number of Americans are going to get more moral. They are simply going to get more intelligent...
Young's proposal, put forward four years ago, was for a "Domestic Marshall Plan" that would cost $145 billion over ten years. He noted that the Negro suffered a "discrimination gap" caused by "more than three centuries of abuse, humiliation, segregation and bias." Because he is consequently incapable of competing equally with whites, said Young, he needs "more-than-equal" treatment...