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...some blacks and blue-collar workers-are parvenus to the old party, a new political wave bred in complicated ways by Viet Nam, the assassinations, all the dislocations of the '60s. The others-labor, organization Democrats like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, elected politicians -tend to have older and firmer roots in the party's traditional structure...
Though his operations will still run a projected deficit of about $2.5 million in the fiscal year starting this month (with revenues of $9,000,000 to $11 million), Papp seems on firmer ground than ever before. The principle of public subsidy has been firmly established, with a $350,000 contribution from the city, $200,000 from New York State and $100,000 from Washington. Beyond that, Two Gentlemen of Verona, which started as a four-week production in the park last summer, has become the biggest money earner on Broadway and its profits keep alive such worthy but unprofitable...
Brian Murphy, operations manager of the Press, said last week that Hall's analysis, financially speaking, was correct. "We are now on a firmer economic base than we were before," he said...
...development surge is straining the state's social and environmental resources, especially its limited water supply. Recently passed laws give the state government firmer control of future land and water use and bar any development in areas where wildlife would be disturbed or natural resources threatened. Yet state officials do not really want to discourage population growth and new building. For all the glitter of its resorts, many parts of Florida-particularly in the Northern Panhandle and interior rural areas-are poor. Fully 37% of the state's families live on an income below the poverty line...
...week that the American fertility rate dropped in July to the lowest monthly level since the late 1930s. While the birth rate is still 2.5 per couple-.4 above the optimum sought by advocates of zero population growth-the figures suggested that the concept of family planning is taking firmer hold...