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...never previously voted in a general election, constitute fully 20% of the British electorate. While the 18-to 20-year-olds did not show any perceptible ideological bent, they did indicate a rather massive sense of noninvolvement in the political process. Out of 2.8 million in the under-21 bracket, 1,000,000 did not even bother to register...
...When 1,000,000 people, half of whom are probably in the $10,000-to-$ 18,000 bracket or better, are out of work largely because of Government spending cutbacks in aerospace and related industries, you cannot help but have a slump [June 1]. It is simply a downward spiral: less income, less tax paid, less money spent; ergo more Government funds for unemployment...
Laurson lost to Kim Suider of Oregon State by one point in the next round to squelch any chance Faller had of entering the consolation bracket. Snider in turn lost to Dave Martin of lowa State, the eventual winner...
Nationally, the white suicide rate is 21 times the rate for blacks. But among males in the 20-to-34-year-old bracket, the ratio is almost even; in big-city ghettos, the black male rate may be double the white. Why? White Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin blames "a sense of despair, a feeling that life will never be satisfying...
...only category, in fact, in which black athletes have consistently lagged behind is money. Those statistics now seem to be changing. As of this season, four of the six baseball players in the $125,000-a-year bracket are black...