Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...per cent of the incomes of the students' fathers exceed the national average...
...per cent of those fathers went to school longer than the national average. The mean number of years of schooling for the students' fathers is 16.8; the national average for males 45-54 is 10.7 years...
Harvard may have a good chance against Columbia. The Lions are not over-poweringly tall. They crash the boards well, and their top three scorers shoot for high percentages--before the Princeton-Penn weekend, Dotson was sinking better than 60 per cent of his shots...
FIRST, he says, there is the psychological effect. The Air Force has run a series of tests purporting to prove that people don't really mind being boomed from above, but Shurcliffe says that the tests don't really prove that. The test booms were only 60 per cent as strong as real SST booms would be, he claims, and people in the test cities knew the booms would be coming at regular intervals--somewhat like a clock striking the hour. Even so, Shurcliffe says, people in the test areas weren't happy with booms...
...decision. The ten discouraging years that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision taught Federal officials that court rulings were too slow and too limited to solve the problem alone. And the problem continued: by 1964, 10 years after the Supreme Court legally banned separate school systems, only 3 per cent of the black children of Alabama and Mississippi were attending schools with whites. The average for the rest of the South was about 10 per cent then, and there was little reason to hope that things would get better soon...