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...history can match the U.S. Its cities, for all their problems, gleam like gilded Camelots in contrast to most of mankind's habitations. Its fields generate a superabundance of food, its factories a surfeit of goods and gadgets. The gross national product this year will top $846 billion, and median family income is approaching $8,000 a year?about $2,000 more than that of the country with the next highest standard of living. Sweden. The accouterments of affluence are everywhere: Americans possess more than 60 million automobiles, 70 million television sets (10 million with color), $500 billion worth...
...student claimed economic discrimination was so great that only three per cent of Harvard students come from homes with incomes lower than the national median. Peter K. Gunness '57, director of the Financial Aid Office, said he was not sure of the figure, but he thought it was closer to twenty per cent...
...prodigality than his mentor, Senator Harry Byrd (who died in 1966), Godwin is considerably more willing to concede that change is inexorable. When he took office, Virginia's financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...
...major factor in making government workers more and more restive is the obvious difference between the rewards in the private sector and those in the public. Government pay scales often run below those paid by private industry. In Detroit, for instance, the median private hourly wage was $2.04 in 1955-against $1.79 for government workers. By 1967, the gap had widened: $3.49 to $3.09. Not many employees any longer consider it a privilege to work for the government. The job security of civil service has lost considerable point in a boom economy, where the demand for labor outstrips the supply...
Typhoid & Typhus. Chloromycetin also saves lives, and in some cases when no other drug is likely to do so. How many? Most medical opinion holds that Chloromycetin is just about the best drug against psittacosis ("parrot fever"), of which there has been a recent median of 60 U.S. cases a year; against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, a total of 484 cases; murine typhus, 33 cases; Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 263 cases; one form of meningitis caused by Hemophilus bacilli, exact number of cases not known, but probably less than...