Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...below last year's disappointing 1,591,000, and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler calls housing one the U.S. economy's few "sputtering" segments. Yet the home buyer has to pay at least 3% more than a year ago. Throughout the U.S., reports the Census Bureau, the median price for new houses has jumped in the past year from just under $19,000 to about $20,000. The rise is even sharper in big cities' from $24,400 to $27,100 in the pas year in the Chicago area...
These great Roman roads of today combine half a dozen principles to achieve a qualitative advance over any earlier road system, or any foreign system. The freeway's wide median strip virtually abolishes head-on collisions and headlight glare. Passing is made so easy that one four-lane freeway can carry about ten times as many cars as two two-way roads. Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic. Gentle grades, ample widths and curves of an easy mathematical beauty let drivers see at least twice...
...spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security bonuses will quickly be spent, chiefly on food, clothing, recreation, services and travel. Reason: couples over 65 have an average income of only $3,376 a year, just half the median for all Americans, therefore usually lay out their entire incomes. Their spending power has risen from $18 billion a year in 1960 to nearly $23 billion today-and will rise further with the new payments. In approving his third medical-assistance bill in as many weeks, the President last week...
...scene deserves special mention as it might even have been worthy of inclusion in Zazie. The gag is on Picnic when Jack and his girlfriend are spread out on the grass discussing life on the farm. Then the camera zooms upward to reveal the couple picnicking on the median strip of Park Avenue. It is easily the most imaginative moment in the movie...
...brick Mexican-American school, charged at the age of 20 with directing five teachers, and paid what he now terms "the magnificent, munificent salary of $125 a month." Yet those nine months in a county where the Mexican kids lived in waterless, crumbling shacks and the median education of Mexican adults is still a mere 1.4 years proved the most rewarding of Lyndon's school years...