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...profound question is still "Why?" Poverty, of course, is part of the answer. A survey released by the National Industrial Conference Board last week, for example, disclosed that fully one-fourth of U.S. families now earn at least $10,000 a year-a reminder to the Negro, whose median family income is $4,000, of the distance he still has to travel. Impatience is another ingredient. All the civil rights bills, the Supreme Court decisions and the Great Society programs of recent years led many a Negro to expect that equality and prosperity were just around the next corner...
Governor Romney was even more to the point. "We knew we couldn't depend on the National Guard," he admitted. "That's why we asked for the Army." The paratroopers, some 40% of them Viet Nam veterans and more than one-fourth of them Negroes, displayed stern fire discipline and did an excellent job. "Our policy is to use an absolute minimum of force," explained a paratroop colonel. "I'd rather miss 100 snipers than hit a single innocent person...
...personal income taxes and the 28 with income taxes of 2% or less, an obvious solution is at hand. But what of the states that are already levying heavy income and sales taxes? New York, for one, is trying to flesh out its $4.3 billion in annual revenues with a state lottery, but ticket sales in the first month totaled less than one-fourth of the anticipated $30 million take. The California legislature last week approved Governor Ronald Reagan's request for a record $1 billion in new taxes, but only after a bitter political struggle...
...consumers will feel the new prices. Estimates are that higher silver will cost industry $80 million this year. Makers of photographic film, which takes one-fourth of the U.S. silver supply, will be hardest hit. Kodak last week announced that its black-and-white film prices will go up next month, though it promised the increase would not be "disturbing." This year's June brides may consider themselves lucky; most silverware makers will raise sterling prices by as much...
According to 1960 census data, more than one-fourth of all the non-white families in the Metropolitan Boston Area had no male head of household. In Boston, 46 percent of all families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are nonwhite...