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Exploding Market. The number of private projects to provide housing for the elderly is growing fast; Social Security payments and company pension plans make it possible for more and more of the retired to live in such developments. One-fourth of the 15.5 million U.S. citizens over age 65 receive between $1,000 and $2,000 a year from Social Security and pensions. Their ranks will swell as pension plans expand and the number of those over 65 soars to 20 million by 1970. Recognizing the possibilities, the Federal Housing Administration has given the housing projects a boost; it guarantees...
...white beams will be extended through the brick exterior, creating a functional design. Since the building is air-conditioned throughout, only one-fourth of it will be window...
Last year, she noted, Radcliffe received applications for the freshman class from approximately 1,000 "well-qualified" students. Only one-fourth could be accepted because of present limitations on pushing space...
...One-fourth of the full-time teachers of professorial rank on the faculties of the nation's 85 medical schools were educated at the Harvard Medical School, Dean George Packer Berry noted, and the 550 post-Doctorate research and teaching fellows at Harvard are one-third of the country's total. By 1975, medical schools in the U.S. will have to produce 3,500 more doctors a year just to maintain the present ratio of doctors to population, Berry said...
Over 80 per cent of the island's population, including Munoz himself, is Catholic, but fewer than one-fourth practice, and the power of the Church is relatively small. The Christian Action Party, formed this summer under unofficial Church sponsorship for the sole purpose of defeating Munoz Marin, won only 6.5 per cent of the popular vote...