Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of interchange is symptomatic of the Courier's gravest problem: most of its staff members are from the North, and they are white. One hope of early Courier staffers was that local talent could be recruited, trained, and finally put in command; at the starting pay of $25 per week the first step has proved rather difficult. While most of the Courier's office workers are Negro, only three of its salaried reporters are. The rest, including Editor Michael S. Lottman '62, former managing editor of the CRIMSON and reporter for the Chicago Daily News, are graduates...
...Conference have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and to a lesser degree, the Vital Statistics of the United States, seriously and significantly under-enumerate or under-estimate the size of the Negro, Puerto-Rican and Mexican-American populations. As much as 10 per cent of the Negro population may not have been counted in the 1960 Census, and there is considerable probability that the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American were similarly under-counted...
...Newark until recently was considered a city in control of its problems. Addonizio, who served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election as mayor in 1962 -largely on the strength of Negro and Italian votes-outlined an ambitious urban-renewal program. Newark today spends $277 per capita on repairing urban blight-the highest annual figure for the nation's 50 biggest cities. Newark officials claim an overall unemployment figure of 7%-down from 14% when Addonizio took over city hall-and Newark has 125 federal poverty workers who spent $2,000,000 last year...
...world and I knew many people there." Under his agreement with Columbia, which gives Strickman less than 10% of licensing revenues, the filter will be made available to any cigarette company, provided that the filtered smoke contains no more than 10 milligrams of tar (a cancer agent) per cigarette-a limit that some U.S. brands presently exceed, even in tests with the new filter. "This," says Dr. Cushman Haagensen, a top cancer researcher, "is an educated guess at the relative safety level...
...students who registered last week, about 3500, or 70 per cent, have never attended Harvard...