Word: prefered
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...majority of blacks in the North earn more than $8,000 a year and a majority in the South make more than $6,000. Some black scholars scoffed that this was a perilously low income measure for the middle class in a time of oppressive inflation. They would prefer to place the floor as high as $11,500, in which case only a quarter of blacks would qualify as being middle class, as compared with nearly 50% of whites. Critics also argued that income gains were partly illusory because black families are more dependent than white families on the earnings...
...country boy who made it to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,* and some of his colleagues regard him as an aloof and self-righteous man who never got over the experience. (President Truman once called him "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b.") As time went by, Fulbright grew to prefer the company of the rich and the powerful. He became a confidant of Henry Kissinger and the friend and counselor to Presidents and Kings. In the process, he lost touch with Arkansas, and last week the people of his state...
Kissinger, of course, will accompany Nixon on the trip, although some State Department hands would prefer that he stay home and attend to an overflowing In box. While he was away, Deputy Secretary Kenneth Rush, 64, the department's No. 2 man, moved from the State Department to the White House (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). In addition to replacing Rush, who ran the department while the boss was away, Kissinger needs to find new Under Secretaries for economics and security assistance. The Secretary must also reschedule postponed appearances before Capitol Hill committees, particularly to argue for $250 million in economic...
...since 1879. During the campaign, she remarked, "Mme. de Gaulle told me that the Elysée was not very livable." Indeed, the palace's private quarters contain only two bedrooms, and major renovations will be needed before all six Giscards can move there. Mme. Giscard would much prefer to reside in the family home in the exclusive 16th arrondissement and use the palace as an office...
Surprisingly, he found that more women are active sexually than men-at least in the confines of their new dormitories. At one Eastern school, for example, 47% of the women had sex in the dorms but only 42% of the men did so. Both sexes, however, prefer to bring in partners from outside. This, says one psychologist involved in setting up coed dorms at Harvard, is easily explainable. Says Jerome Kagan: "Romance tends to flourish when there is some mystery between partners, and sharing bathrooms loses a bit of the mystery...