Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Committee projections, 85 per cent -- about 1150 -- of those accepted will decide to enter Harvard next fall...
...number of freshmen receiving scholarships from Harvard will probably increase from this year's 420. Five hundred and fifty of those accepted for the class of 1971 have been offered Harvard College Scholarships, worth a total of $925,000. The Committee expects 84 per cent -- approximately 460 -- to accept the aid. Smith attributed this rise to the increased number of highly qualified applicants from low income families...
...proportion of public school students in the class will continue its one per cent yearly growth, Smith said. He explained that there had been more applications from public school students and that the increase was not the result of any admissions quota. In recent years approximately 58 per cent of the freshman class have been public school graduates...
LAREDO, TEXAS--This city of 65,000 which languishes on the banks of the Grande is, by federal statistics, the nation's poorest metropolitan area. Unemployment hovers around ten per cent, the median annual family income is less than $3,000 and, in some neighborhoods, is below $1,500. About a fifth of the city has new sewer service and more than half of the streets are unpaved. As many as 8,000 of Laredo's people migrate annually to do farm work. Illiteracy plagues one-sixth of the populace...
...basic question, whose answer is vital to the poverty war's success, is very much at play in Laredo: how much of a role shall the estabilshed order have in running the program? Laredo is about 90 per cent Mexican-American. It is controlled, as are many South Texas cities, by a coalition of Anglos and Latinos; the latter are often regarded as Tios Tomases (Uncle Toms) by the more dissatisfied Latins. Those who rule Laredo have watched the poverty fight here closely and with some misgivings, fearing political and economic change that could threaten their power...