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Unacceptable Union. Bethany's success helped convert the 141-bed Garfield Park Hospital, whose white patients had moved to more affluent areas. Garfield's board sought a merger with Bethany, which agreed on condition that the hospital open its doors to blacks from the neighborhood. The directors then merged the two institutions and appointed a white administrator, Vernon Showalter, 42, who had run Bethany since 1952. He firmly told Garfield's medical staff: "Black patients are the ones living in this community, and it's black patients who are going to end up in this hospital...
George's triumph occurred recently at the Academy of Physical and Social Development in the affluent Boston suburb of Newton Center. A year and a half ago, the little boy was timorous, overattached to his mother, and the victim of two badgering sisters. Now, say academy staffers, he is "quite a tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using...
...dollars of constant buying power, will rise from $8,600 in 1969 to $10,900 by the beginning of 1975. Then the figure will continue upward, to $14,700 by 1985. Says the bureau's director, George Hay Brown: "We are heading into a society with an affluent majority...
There was a substantial increase in the number of working wives during the 1960s. Census Bureau experts expect the trend to continue and boost family income. A surprising number of women from affluent families go to work, more out of desire than need. Among wives whose husbands earn less than $5,000 a year, 45% have jobs; but so do 35% of the wives whose husbands are paid $15,000 or more, and 26% of wives whose husbands get $25,000 or more...
James H. Rogers, Brown Director of Admissions, said yesterday that Brown is expecting about 6800 applicants this year, a decline of about four per cent. "There simply aren't that many affluent parents with sons who have aptitude scores sufficient for admission to Ivy League colleges," he said...