This collection of abstracts, designed to assist White House Conference on Aging delegates involved with research on aging, presents information from 16 Technical Committee Reports which focus on implications of an age-integrated society, employment, support systems, health issues and services, the family, long-term care, older Americans as a…

The high attrition rate among North American expatriate executives has become a significant problem for firms doing business in foreign countries. A review of the literature reveals a number of factors contributing to attrition, including culture shock, family problems, managerial style and practice differences, insensitivity to host cultures, and…

Argues that the legal and political effort to open up the suburbs to the poor and black, which has become perhaps the most important thrust in the policy area, is not necessary, for integration of blacks is occurring, while a major public policy for the integration of the poor would be impossible to implement. (Author/JM)

A survey technique was used to investigate black and white undergraduate students' attitudes toward the minimum number of one's own race needed for comfort in dormitory residency and the relationship of proximity of one's race toward this number. (MLB)

An elaboration of the development of the American assimilationist ideology with respect to Puerto Rican students in the New York City school system. Consequences for the Puerto Rican students in terms of their educational status are documented. (EH)

While blacks have been given some share in the university power structure, this has largely been denied to the more recently vitalized minorities--the Puerto Ricans, Native Americans and the Mexican Americans. This issue of ethnic group rivalry is explored with respect to the Educational Assistance Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago…

Four surveys of white student attitudes on the main campus of the University of Alabama, begun in 1963 and continued at 3-year intervals, indicate increasing acceptance of blacks. It would appear that the desegregation of any social system results in rapid rejection of "racial" roles for interaction, assuming that the setting has been…

All six institutions under study were found to have or to previously have had integrated nonblack chapters; black fraternities had only segregated chapters. Black enrollments were proportionately much smaller than nonblack enrollments, however. (Author)

Japan is an exception to the general rule that modernization causes a sharp decline in status and integration of the aged. The high status of the elders is reflected in many private and public practices which give precedence to older persons. (Author)

Proposes that the utilization of the "benign quota" or the "planned interracial community" practice, wisely and cautiously administered, may actually expedite the process of desegregation: "benign quota" calls for the use of an agreed upon percentage representation of blacks (or any other minority) and whites (or any other majority), it is stated…

The results indicated that administering team rewards to heterogeneous groups of students helped reduce race and sex barriers inhibiting student interaction. The team effect on reducing cross-racial barriers was particularly potent for the helping relationship. (Author/BJG)

Based on a paper presented at the Groves Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April, 1968.