Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group. As it happens, however, where American population statistics are inadequate, they will normally be found to be so in terms of the under-enumeration and under-estimation of minority groups, defined in terms of race, or national origin, and concentrated in specific neighborhoods, usually in densely populated central city areas. They are also, characteristically, defined by poverty. But a larger issue than simply of efficiency and convenience must enter the consideration of this subject. A constitutional issue enters...
...commends the Bureau of the Census for the innovative use of the Post Office for the purpose of insuring a more complete enumeration. The Conference believes that the Post Office will contribute to the improvement of the coverage of the census not only in general, but particularly, in the central cities...
...Bureau of the Census, working in concert with other groups, public and private, should work to develop enumerator skills, particularly for conditions in the central cities, and to instill a professional spirit among enumerators...
...cool and brilliant. Born in Chicago, Hoffman graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Illinois in 1943, returned to get a law degree after serving as an army captain in Europe (two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star) in World War II. He joined New York Central in 1952, quickly moved up the ranks to become executive vice president in 1962. At Flying Tiger, it won't hurt that he is a licensed pilot who flies his own twin-engined Aero Commander, goes so far as to call his new job a "merger of avocation...
...potential is utilized. Even major cities suffer from a severe kilowatt lag. In Rio de Janeiro, lights often flicker-and sometimes die-and Säo Paulo's massive industrial complexes are perennially pestered by a shortage of juice. Prospects are brighter: a giant project abuilding in south-central Brazil will help illuminate some of the country's dark corners and produce a stream of electricity for its cities...