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...accidents, but sometimes because they happen to live in "red line" (claim-prone) areas or belong to supposedly risky groups-a category that includes the young, the old, Negroes, actors, barbers, bartenders, sailors, soldiers and men with frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because they might irk women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned upon as "preoccupied" drivers. A Manhattan lawyer was banned after someone hit his car in his apartment-house parking lot while he was upstairs asleep; a California housewife with a perfect driving record lost her policy because her husband was a Navy medic-driving...
Some of the looters were taking a methodical revenge upon the area's white merchants, whose comparatively high prices, often escalated to offset losses by theft and the cost of extra-high insurance premiums, irk the residents of slum neighborhoods. Most of the stores pillaged and destroyed were groceries, supermarkets and furniture stores; of Detroit's 630 liquor stores, 250 were looted. Many drunks careened down Twelfth Street consuming their swag. Negro merchants scrawled "Soul Brother"-and in one case, "Sold Brother" -on their windows to warn the mobs off. But many of their stores were ravaged nonetheless...
What seemed to irk the dealers most was a practice not confined to Dodge. Automakers rebate from $50 to $100 of the price of a new car to dealers who meet or top monthly sales quotas set by the factory. Because the quotas vary from dealer to dealer even in the same area, they complained, the rebates give low-quota dealers a price advantage over their competitors. On top of that, dealers who consistently fail to meet their sales quotas lose their franchises. Yet neither Dodge nor other dealers can sell a franchise without factory approval of the buyer...
Cheaper TV. Though such higher prices may irk businessmen, the important fact is that they have not been passed on. Rising productivity that cuts costs, excess manufacturing capacity (now disappearing) and old-fashioned competition for markets have combined to keep the surge in prices of materials from spreading. In addition, the threat of losing markets to foreign imports and the increasing availability of substitute materials have kept a firm lid on certain crucial industrial prices. The average prices of finished steel are close to their 1959 levels, and the prices of some building materials have recently dipped...
Conspicuously absent in the Kennedy bill is any proposal for federal college scholarships, which irk conservative Congressmen. To meet the need for semiprofessional technicians, states would get $50 million a year in grants for building more public junior colleges. All colleges would get $1 billion in federal construction loans over three years...