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India and the U.S., so very different-one with the highest per capita income in the world, the other with very nearly the lowest-so long at odds in foreign policy, now find themselves accenting what they have in common: they are the world's two largest democracies. Both threw off British rule. In Gandhi and in Lincoln, each has a national hero whose qualities of charity, compassion and gentleness both nations revere. U.S. aid to India, once grudgingly given and grudgingly received, has accelerated rapidly of late, is now past the $2 billion mark. As Indians get over...
Final totals in the drive, which netted $21,657.51, are as follows: Eliot, $2797; Leverett, $1914 ($5.98 per capita); the Yard, $6175 ($5.32); Quincy, $1219 ($5.30); Winthrop, $1947 ($5.15); Kirkland, $1748 ($4.89); Dunster, $1700 ($4.87); Claverly, $604 ($4.61); Adams, $1429 ($4.30); Lowell...
...final night of solicitation, Eliot House moved up from second place to win the $20 worth of phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the largest rate of per capita giving in the Combined Charities Drive. The Eliot House average was $6.53, nearly double the winning figure of last year...
Adams House, last year the lowest House in donations, jumped off to first place in competition for the prize for the largest per capita contribution. Adams House donations totaled $415, with the average gift approximately $8.95. Quincy took second place with an average donation...
...boom has given the 10 million Australians a standard of living (per capita income: $1,232) that ranks with that of the top nations outside the U.S., and is higher than Great Britain's. Australians eat more meat (nearly 300 Ibs. annually), consume more fruit, cereals and sugar than either Americans or Britons. Except for the U.S. and Canada, they own more motor vehicles (244 for every 1,000 people), enjoy more TV sets (70 for every 1,000) and telephones (200 per 1,000) than almost any other nation. All this Australia gets from a burgeoning industry...