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Winthrop House led in contributions, with a total of $2360. Radcliffe contributed more than it has for two years but fell $1400 short of its projected goal of $6000. The per capita figure at the 'Cliffe was about $1 less than at Harvard...
Chinese Deal. Canadians rank only ninth in per capita consumption among the world's beer drinkers, and the 311 million gallons they quaff each year account for only 3% of the $15 billion world beer industry. But Toronto-based Canadian Breweries (Carling, Red Cap Ale) is the world's largest maker of beer and ale. Cornerstone of the financial and industrial empire of Financier Edward Plunket Taylor, it has not only grabbed a commanding 47% of the Canadian market, but has also pushed its brew from 62nd to fourth place in the U.S. since 1949. It has moved...
Beirut has four universities, and publishes more books and magazines than even Cairo. Next to tiny, oil-rich Kuwait, it has the highest per-capita income in the Arab world ($500 annually); yet public and social services are woefully inadequate. Every rainstorm knocks out the power and phone systems, and virtually no one pays income taxes except benighted foreign residents. The public schools are regarded as hopelessly inferior. Yet Lebanon also has the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, and parents starve themselves to send their children to private schools...
...statesman, Muñoz studied law at Washington's Georgetown University, returned to Puerto Rico in 1926, and has been fighting the island's cause ever since. At that time, Puerto Rico was little more than a sugar barony controlled by a few large U.S. companies; per capita income was a pitiable $120 a year. In 1938, Muñoz formed his Popular Democratic Party, four years later as senate president organized Operation Bootstrap, and was soon luring mainland industry to Puerto Rico. With generous tax incentives and cheap, plentiful labor, company after company found it profitable...
...undernourished. That the $495 million appropriation is less than the $15 billion spent on the RS-70 bomber fiasco alone. That the appropriation cannot possibly extend the proposed benefits of job-training, education, financial aid, and domestic Peace Corps to the 35 million men, women, and children whose per capita income was only $590 in 1962 (against $1900 per capita for the nation as a whole). And that the benefits themselves are not enough...