Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN is the best-known practitioner in the U.S. of that new specialty called ur-banology. As the recently appointed head of Richard Nixon's projected Cabinet-level Council on Urban Af fairs, he will have a hand in reshaping the nation's existing antipoverty programs. Judging from a book to be published by Macmillan in February, it will not be a gentle hand. In a searing indictment of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, Moynihan contends that the much ballyhooed effort was oversold, underplanned and seriously "flawed" in execution. Writes Moynihan in the opening...
...Despite the poverty program's strong emphasis on ghetto blacks, "at no time did any Negro have any role of any consequence in [its] drafting...
...There are two major jamming techniques used by the U.S.S.R. One, called ground-wave jamming, employs a local transmitter that blocks a selected frequency with either a garbling distortion signal or by overriding another program with a Soviet program. This technique, however, works well only within a three-mile radius of the transmitter. Sky-wave jamming, the second technique, calls for transmission from a point as far away as the source of the outside signal. This requires expensive tower construction in remote areas and constant monitoring of the ionosphere, off which radio waves are bounced from sender to receiver...
...problem of black people." Cheek thinks that it is therefore up to black people to find solutions. Rather than overloading his faculty with Ph.D.s, he would prefer to hire "somebody like Claude Brown," the angry author of Manchild in the Promised Land. He would like to set up a program under which an undergraduate would spend two of his four years at Shaw actually living in a New York City ghetto...
...HENDERSON, 45, CLARK COLLEGE, Atlanta, Ga. (1,006 students). An expert in the game of grantsmanship, with a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State, Henderson is a man of fearsome energy. He is a longtime consultant to the U.S. Government on Negro affairs, helped develop the federal poverty program, and is chairman of the Task Force on Occupational Training in Private Industry for the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce. He has dou bled Clark's budget to $3,000,000 since he became president...