Two bodies of survey data were reanalyzed: (1) surveys of college graduates from 1947 and, (2) surveys of social scientists and academics in all disciplines, The variations in political orientation apparently follow an essentially linear and age-related progression. (JM)

Paper delivered as a Forum Lecture at the 1970 Linguistic Institute at Ohio State University. (DS)

The districting policies of and the past resistance to integration shown by the Los Angeles School Board cast doubts on decentralization as the alternative to integration of that city's schools. (DM)

A review of an American and an English economic study, facts, figures, and trends are presented to confirm the durability of inequality in the private economy, and the primarily passive role of the public sector, except for compulsory education and subsistence welfare for the very poor. (DM)

Differential perceptions and evaluations of political authority figures are related to a number of factors including vulnerability and different sets of social experience. (Author/MB)

Condensed version of the presidential address delivered at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), December 27, 1970 in New York, New York. (DS)

Suggests that journalists inadvertently reinforce the authority of local political groups through their use of objective language, imposition of orderly structure on the material, and selection of newsworthy articles. Notes the implications of these conclusions for local government. (RW)

Changes in organization that will make education available and meaningful to people from all walks of life in both industrial and developing nations are discussed. (CK)

Underdeveloped countries will be agreeable toward externally imposed social and educational change if their relations with the country initiating the changes are good. However, if hostility toward the greater power exists, the leaders of these countries will resist any attempts to remold their societies. (CK)

Believes that capitalism exerts an ideologically biased influence on American literary scholarship. Shorter version of this article was presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 27, 1969. (DS)