Word: second-class
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...ticket will not draw even limited support among blacks. The reasons are simple: blacks are thoroughly disgusted with Nixon and his policies. Many blacks resent the fact that Senator Brooke has a white wife, making it impossible for him to identify completely with blacks. We are tired of being second-class citizens, and Senator Brooke, as a black man, would have a second-rate position on the ticket. Nixon is a conservative and Brooke is a liberal; the ticket couldn't run a united campaign...
...that Palestinians who have lived there for centuries have political rights too. For justice to be served, their rights must be considered even if Jerusalem, in a final settlement, remains under overall Israeli control. In spite of the material benefits brought by unification, the Arabs in Jerusalem still have second-class rank. They carry both Jordanian passports and Israeli I.D. cards, vote in municipal but not in national elections, and have little effective voice in city operations, partly because many refuse to cooperate with Kollek. They live in wary coexistence not only with Israel but also with Hussein, who alienated...
...male tradition, trustees voted to admit coeds at a 4-to-l ratio of men to women, a standard similar to that followed by Yale and Princeton. Rather than being delighted with the change, many coeds argue that the quota system is demeaning and condemns them to second-class status on campus. Female academics favored proposed amendments to federal college-aid bills that would have required all coed schools to do away with quotas entirely within seven years. The amendment was defeated early last month after vigorous lobbying by many Ivy schools, which prefer to integrate at a slower pace...
...coupled with an approaching school-committee election, produced results-and a blow to desegregation in Boston. In early October the school committee reversed busing plans throughout the city in the presence of an angry crowd of parents. The Nephews found personal vindication in the reversal. "We're called second-class citizens," Jeannette Nephew observes. "But we proved we're second to nobody in city hall...
Make-work and Macaroni. The Viet Nam buildup left the Seventh with an inexperienced cadre and second-class equipment. Lack of money meant less field training and more make-work. "They send me to the motor pool every day and tell me to paint that truck," complains a G.I. in Kaiserslautern. "The next day they tell me to chip the paint off, and then I paint it again." Insists an armored division lieutenant: "There's just so much you can do to fix a tank." Scorning the Army as "the Green Machine," the Seventh's soldiers adopted...