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...trouble. With so many jobs available, teachers can choose where they want to live. San Francisco, Los. Angeles and Miami are not shorthanded, but California's hot San Joaquin Valley and Florida's rural Marion County are desperately advertising for help. The rich Long Island suburb of Hempstead, on the other hand, pays new teachers $6,400, had 3,000 applications for fewer than 40 openings...
Quotas or Ghettos. Part of the problem, of course, is to persuade Negroes not to inundate one area out of proportion to their 10% share of the population. In the New York suburb of Hempstead, front lawns were forested with FOR SALE signs after the first Negroes arrived, and there were fears that the neighborhood might turn into a suburban ghetto. But calmer residents decided to hang" on. Forming a community association, they saved their hardest sell for prospective white buyers to replace families that had left, urged Negroes to avoid a wholesale rush into the area. Given a choice...
WILLIAM N. LEONARD Hofstra University Hempstead...
...Electrocardiograms normally require that the patient go to a physician's office or a hospital, although in some cases a heavy ECG machine is taken to the patient. Now Computer Instruments Corp. of Hempstead, L.I., has miniaturized the ECG with 24 transistors. The result is a box that is crammed with components. But it is little more than 8 in. square and less than 6 in. thick, weighing only 10 Ibs., and it can be plugged into any 110-volt AC line. It makes its diagnostic tracings on standard ECG paper and records all the standard ECG information...
...Sands Point. What she had in mind was something "readable, entertaining, comprehensive, informative, interpretive, lively, but still sufficiently serious-minded so that no Long Islander will feel compelled to read any New York newspaper." When the first issue of Newsday came off the press in an old garage in Hempstead in 1940, Alicia was disappointed: "I'm afraid it looks like hell." It was soon looking better as Alicia poured her energies into the paper, bringing it to life with a healthy mixture of news, irreverence and breeziness. Newsday's format was novel for a tabloid, with large...