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...either affluent or communally-oriented has sent rents sky-rocketing and sent working class families looking for homes elsewhere. Although Cambridge has lost population since 1960, there has been a 45 per cent increase in the number of 20-to-24-year-olds in the past decade. Meanwhile, the median rent has gone from $63 to $119 a month...
...waitresses or assembly-line workers. Many blacks now have better-paying jobs and often, as in millions of white families, both husband and wife work. The Census Bureau reported in 1970 that one-quarter of all U.S. black families earned more than $10,000 annually and that the black median income increased 50% during the 1960s, compared with only a 35% increase for whites. Banks and other loan agencies have made it easier for blacks to borrow money for vacations. "And I jokingly tell some of them that a trip is the only thing that can't be repossessed...
...prospective influx of the "street people"-estimates range from 5,000 to 100,000, plus 50,000 conventioneers-scares many residents. Memories of the bloody riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago have made the graying Miami Beach citizens (median age: 65) more than a little jittery. Fortunately, the coolest heads belong to those most directly involved in keeping the peace. The coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit...
...February, in the Intellectual Digest, he charged that some 30% to 40% of American doctors are "making a killing" in medicine, some by performing "incredible amounts of unnecessary surgery." Though no one can pinpoint the amount, many doctors agree that there is much superfluous surgery. Incomes are high; the median is more than $40,000 a year, while some private practitioners make more than...
...undergraduate medical education concludes that the problem is not scarcity but uneven distribution. In South Dakota, for example, there is only one internist for every 12,813 people. In 18 states, there is only one pediatrician for each 20,000. Obstetrician-gynecologists are also unevenly distributed; while the national median is 1 to 11,915, the ratio in ten states is only 1 to 20,000. There is also some overabundance, for example, one general surgeon for every 7,554 people in the U.S. today. (By contrast, the optimum general-surgeon-to-population ratio in prepaid group health plans ranges...