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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your people," he told my partner, "are fifty years behind us, dirty and immoral. They just don't know how to live the right way. About 44 percent of their children are illegitimate. Of course our people are slipping, too; I don't know what's wrong these days, but I don't want to see it continue. You," he reminded my partner, "are different; you're educated...
Secondly, the doctor-patient relationship has no meaning for most Americans. It is ridiculous to argue that medical care is as accessible to the 30 percent of the nation's families with yearly incomes under $4,000 as to the ten per cent with incomes over $10,000. Only the well-to-do are able to pay for the time to get to know their doctor well...
Seventy-five percent of all German boys and girls leave school at 14. but nearly all the boys and about half the girls become apprentices. Apprenticeships are offered in 124 trades, ranging from hog raising to organ building, and generally take three years to complete. After passing stiff exams, an apprentice becomes a journeyman -a stage that in medieval times meant that he journeyed about the country to find jobs. Only carpentry retains that ancient practice; on Germany's back roads, the wandering carpenter, dressed in traditional bell-bottom trousers and a widebrimmed felt hat, can still be seen...
...applications. This is the smallest number to be admitted to any freshman class since the 1930's. On Tuesday, with about one-half of the acceptances in, the admissions office reported that the rate of acceptance this year is running about the same as last year, around 94 percent for the early replies...
...Boston officials decided that Boston University's married student forms were tax exempt. At the same time, B.U. agreed to pay Boston 50 percent of the assessed valuation in lieu of taxes every year...