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...largest of the troubled Missouri districts is Hazelwood, a working-class suburb of spreading subdivisions and apartment projects. In 15 years, Hazelwood's school enrollment has grown from 1,000 to nearly 25,000. At the same time, tax revenue from industrial and commercial property has fallen from one-fourth of the school budget to 7%. When Hazelwood voters began protesting higher property taxes in earnest last year, it took four elections to pass a school-tax levy. After four more elections in 1970, the voters have still not approved a levy...
...black enlisted men surveyed, 64 per cent believe that their fight is in the U.S. "I think the black man in Vietnam is definitely fighting two enemies," Ken Bantum, a black Air Force sergeant, told me. "And he should only be at home fighting one." Bantum, stationed at Bien Hoa, is from Philadelphia. One-fourth of the black officers and senior non-commissioned officers agreed...
Still, the Russians are proud of their free medical system, and with good reason. In czarist Russia, the average life expectancy was 32 years; one-fourth of all babies failed to reach their first birthdays. Few of the country's major medical facilities survived World War II. Today, medical care has raised life expectancy for Soviet men to 65 years, for women to 73. Infant mortality has been reduced to 2.6%. The U.S.S.R. now has 104 hospital beds per 10,000 people...
...largest army of men in white-though most of its soldiers are women. According to Petrovsky, the Soviet Union has almost 620,000 medical (including dental) practitioners, about 450,000 of whom are women. Petrovsky claims that the U.S.S.R. has more doctors than the U.S., Britain and France combined; one-fourth of all the doctors in the world are Soviets. In addition, Russia has well over 500,000 feldshers, who perform the same duties as a trained nurse in Western countries, plus many of the minor tasks normally handled by physicians...
...individual moving particles, and a mere 46% knew that the higher a musical note, the higher the frequency and the shorter the wavelength. Many were prone to misconceptions: asked which of five characteristics is peculiar to birds, only half correctly chose "a body covering of feathers" (more than one-fourth fell for "ability...