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This is a very ambitious goal, and one which will surely not be reached in our lifetime. But it can provide a useful target, as a measure of the gap between Negro aspiration and achievement, of the task remaining to be done...
However, when the current performance is compared to the educaation that would fully equip Negroes for the job world of 1985, the gap is very great indeed. To continue the present rated progress following the Department of Labor projections, there should be 1.85 million Negro college graduates by 1985. Today there are about 550,000 Negro college graduates in the labor force. The current rate of Negro college attendance will not bring us close to the goal. About 15 percent go to college, less than half of the rate for whites. A very major step-up in college attendance...
...Metropolitan Airport last week, the crowds ignored him. By contrast, Griffin's Democratic opponent for the Senate, wealthy G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, a longtime (1949-60) former Governor of Michigan, has made his name, face and green bow tie familiar fixtures from Aetna to Zeeland. Despite the recognition gap, the Detroit News last week published a poll showing that Griffin has established a splinter-slim, 51% -to-48% lead over Williams...
From the first day of class, any student can tell that he is not in the classic, run-of-the-mill lecture course. Walking into a plush, carpeted wombroom on the 13th floor of William James the student is confronted with an oval shaped table with a motherly gap in the center. Seated around the table in ominous silence are his twenty-odd classmates and an unidentified section leader...
...scientific or scientifically oriented book in any language on the general subject of physical violence and its prevention," complains Clinical Psychiatrist Wertham, 71, in the opening pages of this profoundly indignant inquiry into man's inhumanity to man. A Sign for Cain aims at filling the gap. It tamps aphorism, anecdote and erudition into stinging whiffs of grapeshot that splay across the whole range of contemporary thought and life. Wertham's thesis is that no murder, no rape, no senseless act of destruction is ever an iso lated, spontaneous event even when it is the product...