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...other hand. Peterson said, "We don't worship the things." If Harvard went strictly by college board scores itcould raise the class median from the present 695 to about 735. "A lot of freshmen who are self-conscious go around comparing board scores and that's a terrible thing...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Admissions Dean Defends Required Entrance Exams | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

...Bantamweight championship, the city's Mexican-American majority had two reasons to be pleased. Not only had the Mexican contender won, but the fight also netted $1,000 for an unlikely beneficiary: Holy Cross High School, a parochial school that serves San Antonio's poorest Chicano neighborhood (median family income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Somebody Up There Likes Holy Cross High | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...campaign for "selected markets" through mail promotionals, magazine advertising, and radio and TV spots will begin early next year, he said. The magzine aims at "an average reader 26 years old, male, with a high median income of $18,000 a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...Median wages and salaries of fully employed men were $4,713 in 1957, as compared with $3,008 for women. In 1968, men's income had risen to about $7,800, or 65%, while women's had gone up to $4,550, or 51%. The gap is widening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Majority Minority | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Area #31 of the 73rd A.D. (an election district) consists largely of rent-controlled walkups, housing lower-middle-class blue collar workers. The median income is somewhere between $7,000 and $11,000, among the neighborhood's Jews and Irish, who account for most of the area's mixed populace. Surveys had shown that most voters in that part of Washington Heights were registered Democrats, hostile to anything associated with liberalism, and largely supporters of Mario Proccaccino...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: How I Won the War: Canvassing for John Lindsay | 11/10/1969 | See Source »

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