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...spend they do, on everything from FM stereo sets (52% of the families own one or more) to theater tickets (71% attend) to home power tools (58%). The average family avidly collects records (77%) and travels extensively (nine out of ten families took trips in 1965, 27% of them outside the country). Mr. Subscriber and his family enjoy all kinds of outdoor activity: three out of four swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks...
...reason is that the various forms of financial assistance to college students-scholarships, loans, jobs and combinations of all three-have finally caught up with rising costs, at least for now. A student may not always find the exact help he needs at the college he wishes to attend, and he may even have to scramble to put together his own "package" of aid. But, says Elwood C. Kastner, dean of financial aid at New York University, "where there's a will, there's a way to get through college...
Nearly every college employs advisers to help students finance their schooling. It takes about $2,000 a year for a commuting student to attend New York University, for example, and N.Y.U.'s Kastner suggests that a kid from a New York slum could more than cover the cost in this way: $800 from a federal Educational Opportunity Grant; $1,000 in an NDSL loan; $500 from New York State's Scholar Incentive program: $400 in earnings from a part-time job; $300 earned in work during the summer...
Always looming behind the question of class ranks is the issue of student deferment. It is now widely conceded that 2-S has produced an army of underprivileged, while exempting those with the means, financial as well as intellectual, to attend college and graduate school. Today's referendum does offer a chance to go on record against 2-S, and thus to add to the pressure for a vastly more equitable lottery system...
...able to serve many of the diverse needs of a substantial segment of the urban population, something on the order of 100,000 people. In such a center, citizens should be able to find employment, purchase goods, further their education, rent housing, play games, sit in the sun, attend concerts...