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...should it soon be expected to, given the facts of life in Hinsdale, where the median income is $26,340. While many of the town's corporate executives pay hip-service to conservation by boarding the crowded Burlington Northern for the commute to Chicago, their wives and children spend their lives in automobiles. To shop in a big supermarket, housewives must drive three miles to Oak Brook. There is no local public transportation system-and none is contemplated. In Hinsdale, where families with two or more cars are the norm, the auto rules not only the road, but life...
...backgrounds of the occupying students showed that most were not among the poorer black students at Harvard. He says that 25 of the 31 undergraduates involved were receiving financial aid, while about 70 per cent of all blacks at the College were also on aid at the time. The median family income of the financial aid students who occupied Mass Hall was $17,000, as opposed to $11,000 for all black students then on financial...
Latinos is $30 billion-more if the pay of 8 million or so illegal aliens is counted. The number of Latino families is increasing at four times the median U.S. rate, and if the trend continues Latinos will become the country's largest ethnic group by the year 2030. As important, perhaps, are their reserves of creativity. Says the magazine's other managing editor, Philip Herrera:* "Nuestro will provide an outlet and showcase for the tremendous talent in the Latino community, the bulk of which has never been tapped...
...almost half of all families in the U.S. could afford a median-priced house, but by 1975 only 27 per cent could afford a similar home...
...three or four gifts in the $100,000 range but so far there is only one large gift this year. Fund officials said they seek small gifts from many alumni, rather than large gifts from a few wealthy donors. The average gift last year was approximately $285 but the median was less than $100, Peter C. Brooks '74, assistant director of the Fund said yesterday...