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...boycotts have had little effect so far, though, because only about one-fourth of all sugar used in the U.S. is sold directly to consumers. The rest is bought by industries that produce a wide range of edibles: candy, bread, soft drinks, cereals and canned vegetables...
Harvard owns about one-half the land that was down-zoned. For at least a decade, the University has developed internal proposals for graduate, married student and faculty housing on their land. Down-zoning means that if Harvard proceeds with building plans, only one-fourth as much housing can be built as previously allowed. And if Harvard should want to build at a density greater than the new zoning allows, a variance must be obtained, necessitating a public hearing and a public forum for examination and discussion of the plans...
Charlotte seemed an appropriate spot for the Northerners to visit. It became a landmark in school desegregation in 1970, when a federal judge ordered crosstown busing, which originally affected about one-fourth of the district's 75,000 pupils (some 46,000 out of 77,300 students now take a bus to school, half of them bused for desegregation). But busing was no more popular in Charlotte than it is in Boston. In fact, only four days before the Boston contingent arrived, racial fighting forced the closing of one of the district schools, Olympic High. Seven students were arrested...
...Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times-in 1960 and 1972 and noted a sixfold increase. Nevertheless, Congress has yet to fund the National Institutes of Health's newly created Institute on Aging. The institute is requesting a budget of only about $13.8 million this year, less than one-fourth the amount sought for research on child health and development. With more elderly people, such priorities are likely to be changed. Women may also play a larger role in the politics of the future. Freedom from children has already given many of them the time and the opportunity...
...Louis XIII furniture being sent to the U.S.; the heroin had apparently been processed before the French connection was broken and had been stockpiled for later sale. So far, narcotics seizures in and around Amsterdam have been much smaller; officials reckon that the Dutch drug traffic is less than one-fourth the size of the Turkey-Marseille trade at its peak...