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Died. Jack Kerouac, 47, novelist and spiritual father of the Beat Generation (see THE NATION...
...difficulty of finding reasonably priced housing has contributed to the feeling of frustration in the nation. The Nixon Administration recognizes that the housing problem is fanning popular discontent about inflation. Moreover, rising pressures in the housing market may well aggravate tension in the ghettos. Rent strikes, led by predominantly Negro tenant unions, have occurred recently in St. Louis, Los Angeles and other cities. The strikers demand better living conditions, lower rents-or both. In Milwaukee, 14 couples and their 70 children not long ago took up unauthorized residence in an abandoned Army disciplinary barracks. The squatters have dubbed the place...
Prices continue to rise partly because the supply of houses and apartments is not adequate. The U.S. has long taken pride in being the best-housed nation in the world, but today-despite its riches and technological power-it has slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates...
Mobile homes have become the nation's main source of low-priced shelter. The mobiles come with wheels and a steel chassis, but once they are placed on foundations, few are moved again. Because they are factory built and beyond the reach of cost-boosting local regulations, mobile homes are cheap (average price: $6,000), if generally small (about 700 sq. ft.) and boxy. This year some 220 companies will produce 400,000 mobile homes, double the output of the industry only two years...
Harvard has just set another academic precedent by naming Robert W. Thomson, assistant professor of Classical Armenian, to the nation's first chair in Armenian Studies...