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According to the study San Francisco is the most popular city to live in, while Detroit is the most unpopu- lar. Suburbia is the preferred residential location, with the big city in second place. The expected starting salary varies with the field of work, the highest being $775 per month for those in business, and the lowest $675 per month for a government...
...Sheffield Industrial Mission, he quit a pastorate in the Detroit industrial suburb of Ypsilanti to spend three years learning what modern busi ness was all about. In 1956, with the encouragement of the Michigan Council of Churches, he set up the Detroit Industrial Mission. Now there are simi lar missions in ten cities, linked by a national committee that last month held its first organizational meeting in Bos ton, coaxed Father White into accepting its executive directorship. Worth Loomis, a Presbyterian layman, is permanent president of the committee...
...Northern Ireland town of Bangor and the Ohio town of Sandusky are simi lar in size and economy (tourism and shipping). They were thus suited to be among some 30 paired communities used in a two-year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge...
...election season, Lar Daly of Chicago puts on his Uncle Sam suit and runs for office on the America First ticket - any office, from the presidency on down. In 1959, when Firster Daly was a candidate in Chicago's mayoralty race, he learned that CBS had televised the other Daley, Mayor Richard, as he greeted a Latin American diplomat at the airport. Invoking Section 315 (a) of the Communications Act of 1934, Lar Daly demanded - and got - equal time on television to promote his home-canned candidacy...
...soon as he officially becomes a candidate, kill-joy Section 315 (a) may well preclude any more presidential press conferences on television until after the election. Unless, of course, Lyndon wants to invite Barry - and Lar -to share the White House spotlight...