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...these pleasures are denied the balcony dweller. He rates only a seat overlooking the revels below, and a better view of the stage. He also, by taking the cheapest seats in the house is able to attend the concert for only one dollar. Although there are certain advantages to having a table, a scrupulous cost-benefit analysis will reveal the superiority of a dollar seat...
...unfamiliar, bewildering and often hostile. Precisely because blacks have been segregated and barred from good jobs, schools and housing, they have developed a separate and different culture. It does not always put a premium on the white man's values of work, thrift and discipline. To the ghetto dweller, the job is often secondary to other interests and demands. The New York Telephone Co., which teaches its black employees remedial reading, geography, elocution and grooming, cites the typical case of a Harlem woman who stayed home from work to baby-sit when her mother was called away. Baby-sitting...
These are not isolated examples of drug abuse by the very young. They can be multiplied many times over, and they add a frightening new dimension to the newly evolving drug society. What was once the quick trip to oblivion for the hopeless and despairing ghetto dweller has become the quick kick of the children of middle-class America. More ominously, a few of the neophyte users, some of them still short of their teens, are flirting not just with nonaddictive drugs but also with those that can hook and kill. Says Sociologist William Simon of the Illinois Institute...
...starter, Pat Coleman, will be in the lineup for the Crimson's first home match in over a month. Harvard and Columbia have each lost one Ivy League encounter, to Cornell and Yale respectively, and both count decisive victories over cellar-dweller Brown...
...Harvard wrestling team stumbled to one win and two losses in a quad-rangular meet at Virginia Tech Saturday, as the perennial Big Ten cellar-dweller. Indiana, surprised everyone and easily won the team title with three victories...