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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are more and more accompanied by lower-income whites and nonwhites who are also fleeing the cities-and bringing all their problems with them. But the black move to suburbia is much slower. Though the number of blacks living in the suburbs is expected to grow from 2.8 million in 1960 to 6.8 million in 1985, the white suburban population will grow from 52 million to 106 million. Already the suburbs lead the cities in population, 66 million to 59 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CITIES AND SUBURBS: MORE AND MORE, THE SAME PROBLEMS | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...central cities may lose 2.5 million white residents by 1985, dropping to 45.4 million, while the nonwhite population may nearly double to 20.1 million. The report somberly points out that such a concentration of Negroes could result in "a further polarization of blacks and whites, and the flight of more and more businesses, and therefore jobs, from the city. The suicidal consequences that such a possibility suggests are not pleasant to contemplate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CITIES AND SUBURBS: MORE AND MORE, THE SAME PROBLEMS | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...kidnaped girl belongs to one of Florida's wealthiest families. Her father Robert and his brothers own and run the $65 million Deltona Corp., one of the biggest home-building companies in the U.S. The three brothers are friends of Florida's Senator George Smathers and of President-elect Richard Nixon, and they own the Key Biscayne Hotel where Nixon has often stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Girl in the Box | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...With millions of Americans already victimized by the epidemic, the American Red Cross declared a "disaster situation." Federal health authorities, warning that the worst is yet to come, predicted that the peak should be reached around New Year's Day or mid-January. Before the virus has run its course, perhaps 30 million citizens will have been abed with coughs, chills, fever, and general aches and pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epidemics: Approaching a Disaster | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...those suffering from chronic heart or respiratory diseases, it can be a prelude to fatal complications. Last week some 213 deaths in the U.S. were at tributed to the disease and accompanying complications. To try to protect the aged and infirm, seven national drug firms have produced 17 million doses of vaccine that are now being distributed across the country. Among the first vaccinated: former President Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epidemics: Approaching a Disaster | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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