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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Rican children cause "a huge percentage of the crime and violence." But, he found, "mixing of the races is not the basic cause." As a tough-minded Brooklyn principal told him: "This problem is not because Negroes are Negroes, it is because they are newcomers. They are often at the bottom of the economic scale." The school man added an observation of equal relevance to the South:* "It is a sociological truth that until a person finds his place in society, he is rebellious...
...Institute of Technology started a $16.1 million fund-raising drive to improve salaries, erect new buildings. ¶Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party. When my wife married me she thought a machine tool...
...outset, Mother Mary faced the question of what age the girls should be. She decided that adolescents are "the youngsters who are least understood and who need guidance most. Everyone loves to play with a cute and docile baby, but teen-agers are too often unwanted." Last fall Mother Mary welcomed to Girls' Town 16 ragged, frightened orphan girls from institutions all over Italy. They looked in wonder at the pink exterior walls, the brightly painted rooms ("Colored paint costs no more than white, and it's much more cheerful"). One girl exclaimed at the sight...
...death of the old-fashioned list price, the U.S. businessman has largely himself to thank. In the days of postwar shortages, the oldtime salesman gave way to mere order-takers, who sold only on the basis of price. And since the "list price" often differs widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because...
...justified by the services performed by the dealer." The manufacturers' suggested list price has also become meaningless as the difference between it and the actual "delivered price" that the customer pays has increased. The original list price does not include taxes, delivery charges and optional equipment, which often add $1,000 to the cost of a car. As customers have learned to bargain harder, the percentage off the delivered price has risen; the average discount on new 1958 cars is 15%, and many dealers give better than 20% to sew up a sale. The unit profit is slim...