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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have traditionally seemed a contradictory mixture of liberal and conservative impulses. From a liberal point of view, the record of Nixon's first year is probably better than his poor public relations and awkward rhetoric would indicate. At year's end, the Administration saved its "Philadelphia Plan," designed to open construction trade unions to thousands more black workers (see BUSINESS). His bold welfare reform for the first time proposed a policy of guaranteed annual wages combined with a work incentive. His draft reform, instituting selection by lottery, brought a new equity to the Selective Service system. He won liberal applause...
...Open admissions programs at universities strike Middle Americans as unfair and illogical violations of the merit system. Beyond that, they see a bias toward blacks in conventional admissions policies. "If anything," says Futurist Herman Kahn, "they believe that a black face helps. A Middle American can't send his kid to Harvard, but he knows the black man down the street can, if the boy is bright enough." Middle American workers frequently feel that blacks are given preferential treatment in job hiring. Says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the grievances of Middle America: "They...
...without a formal trial. Afterward, one of the dissidents noted: "Today it is different from Stalin's time. Then nobody knew if he would be arrested. Today, you can keep your ideas to yourself and preserve your integrity. To be arrested, you must be active-and in the open...
ENDS: JIM MANDICH, Michigan, 6 ft. 3 in., 225 lbs.; and KEN BURROUGHS, Texas Southern, 6 ft. 5 in., 215 lbs. "Mandich is the kind of rugged tight end who can block like a demon for three quarters, then break the game open with a spectacular catch in the fourth," says one scout. The pros mark him as a savage blocker, and are particularly impressed with the way he can "catch the ball in a crowd and carry three tacklers for five yards." On the whole, scouts were disappointed with the receivers this year, but many feel that Burroughs...
CENTER: KEN MENDENHALL, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 1 in., 235 lbs. For three years Mendenhall's specialty has been coming quickly off the ball to open a hole for Steve Owens' patented power dives. The scouts say that he will have to put on another 15-20 lbs. of muscle, but they admire the way he blasts out at linebackers. "He can make it on quickness alone," reports...