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...spending will have to average $46 billion a year above 1970 levels for just four purposes: rebuilding mass-transit systems, cleaning up pollution, upgrading law enforcement and improving education. Spending needs would rise even more if the U.S. decided to rebuild its cities or start a nationwide system of low-cost health care, as it should. There is no excuse for the world's richest nation to rank 13th in infant mortality and 17th in life expectancy...
...years, and its women the second longest, 76 years, just behind Iceland. High-class, tuition-free education right through university is available to all academically qualified Swedes. University students get about $2,000 a year in living costs, partly in the form of state grants and mostly in low-cost loans...
Upper Crust. Architect Safdie originally designed Habitat as a pilot low-cost housing project, but its present tenants are definitely upper crust: professors, architects, lawyers, musicians and business executives. CMHC advertises it as "the most sophisticated place to live in Canada," which is a jarring contrast with Architect Safdie's original intentions. Safdie himself, feeling that rents were unrealistically high, moved out of Habitat in protest three years...
...Kennedy, whose $250 million food program for the elderly was the only piece of legislation passed by the Senate while the conference was in session (it was later buried in a House committee). The bill, which passed 88 to 0, was to have provided funds to the states for low-cost meals for anyone 60 and over, particularly for the poor and members of the minorities. At a reception attended by an overflow crowd, Kennedy urged the delegates to keep up the pressure on the Administration...
...market dropped to 5%, and in the past two months it has plummeted to 3.9%. At this year's Detroit auto show, which ended last week, the sports compacts were elbowed to the sidelines by family sedans, high-ticket luxury models and by two categories of lightweight, low-cost cars: the compacts (such as the Ford Maverick, Chevrolet Nova and American Motors Hornet) and subcompacts (such as Ford Pinto, Chevy Vega and Dodge Colt). Summarizing the change in taste, Chrysler Vice President Bob McCurry told TIME Correspondent David DeVoss: "The emphasis now is on practicality, quality and convenience...