Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Seaboard, airline pilots flying north at dusk from Washington to Boston look down on a coruscating corridor of light, an unbroken, 450-mile-long conglomeration of 37 million Americans that is referred to by demographers as "the Eastern Megalopolis." Another area is growing even faster, and will ultimately pose bigger problems. This is the potential "Great Lakes Megalopolis," which will soon stretch without interruption from Pittsburgh to Chicago, by the year 2000 will contain a population of 45 million. Fortunately, in the opinion of City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, the great heartland megalopolis has a natural focus and headquarters...
...fact is that Negroes have progressed farther and faster than any minority in the history of the U.S., or almost any other nation. Considering that the drive for full equality did not really begin until after World War II and did not achieve the sanction of law until the Supreme Court struck down the old "separate but equal" doctrine in 1954, the gains have been nothing less than remarkable. Though whites still earn far more than Negroes ($7,170 per family compared with $3,971), Negro income has risen 24% since 1960 v. only 14% for whites. Today, just over...
...fair rapidity. The U.S. has certainly come an incredibly long way since Abraham Lincoln, shortly before the end of the Civil War, asked his logistics experts to determine whether the U.S. could muster enough transportation to export the Negroes-only to be told that Negro babies were being born faster than all the nation's ships could carry them from the country...
Team comparisons by time aren't overly meaningful. But it is frightening to see that Princeton times against Penn and Columbia at Van Cortlandt are on the average 30 seconds faster than Harvard times on the same course...
...main problem HSA is facing this year is competition. The Crimson Travel Agency at 35 Boylston St., just set up last year, is offering slightly higher-priced, but much faster, excursion flights to the West Coast...