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...only hope is to raise taxes. California ranks 12th among Western states in the percentage of per capita income its citizens pay to support state colleges and universities. The California legislature has the last word on the cuts in the University budget, and they should force their constituents to look at the question more carefully...
...Europe is too stingy about research and development. The U.S. spends about ten times more per capita on R. & D. and four times as much altogether as Europe ($23.3 billion last year). While European regimes give research only modest financial support, the U.S. Government last year poured $16 billion into such efforts. Most of that went into defense, aerospace, aircraft and electronics. From these fields, U.S. firms are learning to master staggering complexities on technology's frontiers, and to apply the techniques in other areas. With their vast capital and huge home market, U.S. companies routinely risk fortunes beyond...
...building less new housing per capita than such countries as Austria, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia and even hard-pressed Britain; per-capita U.S. output is only about half that of Sweden, West Germany...
This is a lot of fish to let get away. Catholics account for 24% of the U.S. population, buy far more than their share of the average 10.6 lbs. of fish per capita that Americans consume each year. University of Illinois Food Economist William F. Lomasney estimates that the new deal will result in a 10% drop in consumption, which could slice $200 million off the industry's $2 billion yearly retail sales. In heavily Catholic areas such as Boston and Baltimore, the cut could be deeper; when meatless Fridays ended in Canada two months ago, sales in Montreal...
...Despite the rising affluence of Americans, expenditures on the performing arts grew only proportionately to the gross national product from 1932 to 1963; and between 1961 and 1963, even that rate diminished. In 1963 Americans spent only $3.23 per capita on admissions to the theater, opera, concert and dance...