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...effect, the Common Market nations have woven all their conflicting patchworks of farm supports and subsidies, quotas and tariffs into a single system that will 1) apply to all members uniformly; 2) gradually bring long-divergent price levels to a Market-wide median; 3) encourage the heavy consumers of farm produce, such as West Germany, to buy within the family from its biggest producers, notably France...
...skit on the show caught on like The Honeymooners, the ironically titled description of a Brooklyn couple who had been married for ten years and fighting for nine years and twelve months. It was broad, low-median but honest humor, perhaps the best situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields...
Bargain Basement. Home buyers can expect a better break next year. The builders intend to trim home prices from this year's median of $15,100, to $14,950 in 1962. Behind the decision to cut prices are several factors: stiff competition, fears that the higher-priced market is saturated, and expectations that new FHA rules permitting smaller down payments will attract more lower-income families. More efficient building methods and increasing reliance on prebuilt parts will help bring prices down...
This treatment constitutes nothing less than deliberate evasion. Bender raised the question of scholarships to show that "no significant gains were made in lowering the economic barrier to a Harvard education." The median family income of scholarship holders rose from $4,900 in 1952 to $7,800 in 1960, Bender reported, and "Harvard is rapidly becoming a college serving only upper-middle income families." This point, one of Bender's most serious concerns, is entirely omitted from the News Office release...
...Harvard is rapidly becoming a college serving only upper-middle income families. . . . In 1950 the median family income of those admitted but denied scholarship aid who did not come to Harvard was $10,500. In 1960 the median family income of those admitted but denied aid who did not come...