Job Training Must Shift With Times in Vocational Education
A California Assembly Education Committee hearing warns that workers must repeatedly switch jobs as technology advances. Vocational education is called an ailing stepchild, with school shops facing rapid obsolescence and costly equipment. Proposals seek family of occupations courses and industry partnerships, plus state support for work experience credits to fund adaptable programs.
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Assembly
California Teachers Association
State Department of Education
CTA
Being Out of Office Has Points
The essay contrasts Nixon and other leaders on taxes and Vietnam. Nixon, out of office, can treat issues as abstractions, hawkish on Vietnam yet tax responsibilities absent. Johnson pushes Congress for a 10 percent levy while Rockefeller seeks a $500 million hike. Reagan faces a tough tax reform plan involving a sales tax on food and internal opposition, jeopardizing support from business and lawmakers.
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Richard Nixon
Nixon
Johnson
Congress
Town Meeting He’s Prejudiced
Readers criticize an editorial on the era of sour stomachs and George Wallace. Letters from Long Beach Vincent A Cervino and Milwaukee Ed Batzner voice strong political bias, anger at courts and police, and anticipation of Wallace winning in November. Torrance Cleve Anno adds opposing view and warns editors.
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George Wallace
Johnson
Supreme Court
Long Beach
Vincent A, Cervino
A New WPA Appears on Plan Boards for 1968
Washington reports planners drafting programs to employ thousands on the government payroll. The initiative aims to revive the Works Projects Administration as the employer of last resort, expanding job creation amid unemployment concerns.
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Washington
WPA
Works Projects Administration
Franklin Roosevelt
New Deal
WPA style revival faces critique and research cuts
Drew Pearson analyzes proposed work programs to aid unemployables through new WPA like initiatives. He notes Small trials under Labor Department programs show gains in park and highway beautification and political conservatives favor work incentives. He warns federal cuts threaten scientific progress at the National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg and warn of a slow, unseen toll on innovation and employment.
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WPA
United States
Labor Department
National Bureau of Standards
Gaithersburg
Washington
Rights Aren’t For Rats In Vigilant Defense Of Law
An adult critique of television violence argues that while villains may be punished, heroic figures violating laws threaten core values. The writer cites Mission Impossible where a hero corners a criminal and proclaims rights are for rats, warning that unequal treatment under the law risks empowering any group to label others as rats.
Sydney Harris on liberty and moral clarity
Sydney Harris argues that civil liberties apply to all, warns that relaxed adherence to equal justice makes “the good guys” indistinguishable from “the bad guys,” and urges teaching children the true basis of morality beyond superficial symbols. He cautions against using any means to remove societal “rats” and stresses consistent legal rights for all.
Thoughts on life and courage from David Starr Jordan
A brief quotation noting steadfast courage and the hope of being with the Lord, attributed to the American naturalist David Starr Jordan. It reflects on life’s completeness tied to its purpose and faith.
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David Starr Jordan
Congress to Seek Rules for Surgery
Washington reports that public policy questions arise from high visibility flu wan heart transplant efforts. Doctors cannot freely use some drugs that may help patients but lack federal approval, raising debate over whether heart transplants should proceed amid medical controversy and unsettled professional standards.
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Washington
Questions on heart transplants raise life and death ethics
Senator Mondale calls for a national commission to study the ethical, legal, and social questions raised by heart transplants and potential artificial viruses. Lawyers draft donor legislation to allow signed body donation at death to ease medical use and avoid legal reprisals. The debate touches who should live, how genes are altered, and how long life can be prolonged.
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Fred P. Graham
The
New York Times
E. Blyth Stason
Vanderbilt Law School
Mondale
Feading
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