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...WEALTHIEST CITY: Shaker Heights (pop. 36,460), near Cleveland, with a median family annual income* of $13,933. Second: suburban Wilmette, on the North Shore near Chicago...
...POOREST CITY: Laredo, Texas (pop. 60,678), with a median of $2,935 a year...
There was nothing in its background to indicate that this year's class could be so different from its immediate predecessors. Admissions Dean Fred Glimp says that while its median college board score is perhaps a point or so higher than '65 there is no reason to claim that '66 is substantially, if any, brighter than other classes currently at Harvard. But if they possess no transcendental intellectual skills, the freshmen certainly lack the inhibitions that featured previous Yardlings. Dean Glimp and Freshman Dean Von Stade report that the seminar-coffee hours this year, based on reading that was sent...
Advertisers have discovered that WFMT's listeners are a group to be taken seriously. Many are professional people and executives. Their median income is $9,300 a year. They make up in buying power what they lack in numbers. Sponsors, ranging from brokerage houses to airlines, have found that such a selected audience can pay off handsomely on the advertising dollar. One South Side real estate developer practically filled a new apartment complex last year with WFMT listeners...
...half a dozen TV sets suspended from the ceiling. Supervised by one teacher and two assistants, the students typically watch the TV lesson for 30 minutes, then spend 15 minutes discussing it. One result: the bottom two-thirds of this year's students recently tested higher than the median of last year's separate classes. Even more impressive, the statewide median scores of TV algebra students have precisely matched the median at such top prep schools as Andover and Exeter...