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Frei offered no revolutions. The tall, hawk-nosed Senator said he would work for slum redevelopment, tighter regulation of the U.S.-owned copper mines, more diversified industry, land reform -but all within a pro-West, democratic framework. "There is no need to regiment the life of the nation under the iron fist of dictatorship," he said last week. "Much less do we need an ideology that is deeply split between Moscow and Peking...
...Sugar Plums. The Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei raises no such phantoms. The real danger, he believes, is the Communists, who will inevitably grab power if Allende is elected. His campaign is based on a well-reasoned program of land reform, more manufacturing industries, more technical schools, slum redevelopment, and stronger government regulation of Chile's mining industries. But he is not for nationalization, and he is not dispensing sugarplum visions to Chileans. "I'm not going to promise you miracles," he tells them. "What I do offer is constancy. I am with...
...last week, Richard James Cardinal Cushing, 68, looked down not at the familiar Irish faces of his own Boston congregation but rather into the docile and questioning gaze of brown Peruvian eyes. The occasion was the blessing of a new brick-and-concrete Roman Catholic church in a slum suburb of Lima...
...Hampshire for classes in Exeter's summer session. Next summer Hotchkiss School, financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, will play host to 100 high school students who meet the official specifications: "Any boy of intellectual promise from a poor family, with preference to boys from slum neighborhoods, and especially from segregated areas...
Fulltime Enrollment. To get slum kids into prep schools as fulltime students, the Independent School Talent Search Program, the Rockefeller Foundation and Dartmouth have pooled resources in a pioneering plan called ABC (A Better Chance). "All kinds of money is going begging in good colleges that want Negroes," explains Dartmouth Associate Dean Charles Dey, director of ABC. "In fact the odds are in favor of disadvantaged Negroes' being admitted over disadvantaged whites. But the colleges can't lower their standards, and the Negroes can't meet them because they come from inferior secondary schools." ABC wants...