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...This bill is particularly aimed at helping youth," adds Mrs. Lee. "Across the country today, young people are living together, Shacking up,' as they call it, and disregarding old-style marriage vows. We're also hearing from many older people who were victimized by the present divorce setup. Personally, I'm for marriage-mine was a success -but marriage is under threat. Let's find out what it takes to adapt or modify it to a new generation's needs." The two plan to keep on reintroducing their bill until it passes-or they...
...however, can still operate with student vacancies; it will doubtless do so. But this only shows how superfluous students are within the present setup. Token representation on disciplinary committees was never more than a political bone tossed at students, and a meager one at that. After almost two years of student participation on such committees, it has become obvious that students will never have any real say in their own discipline unless they can set the guidelines and implement them as well...
Televised conferences present much the same problems and, even without cameras, they are too diffuse to permit concentrated questioning along a single line. A press conference is a "setup too easily dominated by the President," according to George Reedy, who served as Lyndon Johnson's press secretary...
Dissatisfied with the traditional family setup, or simply unable to cope with it, Americans by the thousands are seeking alternatives. One that has most captured the imagination of youth and that has an almost religious appeal to members of the counterculture is a family structure that is as old as antiquity: the commune. Utopians from Plato onward have visualized children as not being raised in traditional families but in various communal organizations; the instinct that pulls man toward a tightly knit "nuclear" family has often been counterbalanced by the dream of escaping from...
...realized that she was spending $60 to $70 a week for baby sitters; the Herrings had no live-in grandparents or nearby relatives to care for their three children while Ethel was attending her frequent feminist meetings. In effect, she says, "we were suffering from the nuclear family setup...