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...change, admissions officials explain, is the result of better applicants. The median SAT score has increased from 560 to 654 over the ten-year period. Now only about 1000 applicants are rejected annually for fear they cannot handle the work...
...been getting worse, not better. In a statistical profile of the Negro published by the Federal Government last month, Hough mirrored the national picture: while some Negroes are absorbed into the middle class, the hard core poor grow ever poorer and more numerous. Between 1960 and 1965 in Hough, median family income decreased from $4,732 to $3,966. The percentage of families headed by women increased from...
...Steerage? The book's cool tone invites no emotional response, but it is certain to evoke one. A sense of great hazard, of impending doom, pervades its pages, no doubt unintentionally. After projecting unprecedented wealth and leisure by the year 2000-median family income of $21,000 in the U.S., a four-day work week-the authors study the consequences: "There may be a great increase in selfishness, a great decline of interest in government and society as a whole . . . More and more people would act on the aphorism currently attributed to a leader of the new student left...
...British, who prefer to live in the past and talk about it. Now 69 and Warden of Oxford's Wadham College, Sir Maurice Bowra seems to have spent a lifetime as a classical scholar preparing to write his memoirs. His sentences, too many of them balanced on a median "and," move at the stately pace of an Oxford processional. His assurance is majestic. It assumes that the reader will want to hear everything about him, from his encounter with the novelist Henry James, who asked politely if the young Bowra were still at school ("I replied that...
...most states the amount ranged between $3,000 and $4,000, with an infinite variety of limitations as to what cash, liquid assets, equity in a car, and life insurance the family might be allowed to keep. California, though it set the four-member family income limit at a median $3,900, offered an estimated 2,500,000 eligibles every conceivable health service that HEW would approve...