Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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City-Bred Muscle. This and most other urban problems seem almost trivial in comparison with those created by the changing race structure. Says Economist Miles Colean: "We can't get around the sad fact that middle-class families living in the city who depend on public schools have not made up their minds that they can live with Negroes." Weaver adds pointedly: "We need an open suburbia-not just an upper-and middle-income-class suburbia...
...detailed comparison of the smoking and health histories of 441,000 men and 563,000 women, Dr. Hammond's crew of epidemiologists followed the medical history of their volunteers since the winter of 1959-60. The first result of their work was the world's most exhaustive survey of the relationship between men's smoking and disease (TIME, Dec. 13, 1963), a study that was a major factor in persuading the U.S. Public Health Service to condemn smoking. By now, the Cancer Society researchers have followed both the men and the women for four years, and have...
...priests is not the only change he would like to see in the church. Scheduled for publication this week is a book of his, called The Human Church (Doubleday, $4.50), in which DuBay puts forward a program of reform that makes the ideas of Luther seem positively papalist by comparison. Among other proposals, DuBay suggests that bishops be elected for limited terms, that their statements must represent a consensus of the faith ful, and that the parochial school sys tem should be abandoned in favor of informal programs to teach Catholics the principles of Christian action. DuBay argues that...
...school system are rooted in its image and could be corrected without any fundamental changes in structure. One basic difficulty, he insists, is that Boston newspapers are geared to a suburban readership. Their aim is to flatter the suburbanite, and all too often this flattery becomes a destructive comparison of the city with the suburb; criticism of the city becomes a way of justifying the suburbanite's flight from Boston...
Freshmen are entitled to a comprehensive comparison of the 34 possible fields of concentration. Before they can make a wise and informed choice of fields, they need to know something not only about the general requirements and amount of work, but also about the method of instruction, the course offered, and the faculty members teaching them...