Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement charges that the construction of the proposed Brookline-Elm St. route would destroy 1200 dwelling units, the homes of nearly 6 per cent of Cambridge's population. It reads: "2300 jobs will be lost, established neighborhoods will be permanently disrupted, elderly and low income families will suffer severe financial and emotional costs, and the city will be split...
Thoroughly Modern Millie must be seen . . . to be believed. Its script is low camp; its direction, by George Hill, lacks not only credibility but competence; its editing is both ill timed and ill-executed (employing grisly cutting devices like zig-zags and eyeopeners); its acting, with a few not terribly noteworthy exceptions, reeks...
...pills." This impressive total, according to the 1965 National Fertility Study,* means that of all white American women using any form of contraception, 24% are on the pills. Broken down, it shows 27% pill use among Protestants, 22% among Jews, 18% among Roman Catholics. This last figure may be low because some Catholics say they use the pills for reasons other than contraception. The use rate among Negroes is only slightly lower than among whites...
Latin America counts 2,000,000 pill users, a remarkably large number considering its Roman Catholic heritage and low income levels. But that is still less than 5% of the fertile women. Among the masses, baby follows baby with such deadly rapidity that Colombian women crouch on the ground to abort themselves with sharp sticks. In Chile, the victims of bungled abortions occupy 20% of the beds in maternity wards, use up 27% of the transfusion blood. The situation became so serious that four years ago, with a high death rate among women who left five to ten orphans behind...
...also, average real take-home pay for factory workers slipped from $98.81 a year ago to $97.11. But for all that, one bright note was heard last week. After running a new survey of consumer sentiment, Michigan's Dr. George Katona reported an upturn from the November-December low. Higher-income families especially were satisfied that they would either make more money this year than last or at least make as much as last year. Moreover, retail prices are generally holding firm and even falling in scattered instances; in Miami last week, the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain threw...