Word: ratings
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Crime, as in other places, continues to rise in California. More than 5% of California's population was arrested last year on various charges. The rate of personal crimes of violence rose almost 18% in 1968. In San Francisco alone, there have been more than 109 homicides so far this year; forcible rape in September of this year has risen 101% over September...
Another victim of apathy is California education. The wealthiest state in the nation ranks fourth (after New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) in the amount it spends for the education of its children, and tolerates a second-rate public school system. In addition, a political crisis threatens the nine campuses of the University of California. One of the greatest public education facilities in the land, it boasts, among other things, some of the best science faculties?including 14 Nobel laureates?of any university anywhere...
Population planners hope that, at least in the U.S., pills and other contraceptive devices will soon be available to every couple that wants them. Yet even then, the nation's population will keep growing at an alarming rate. The reason is simple but often overlooked, according to Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, HEW's Assistant Secretary for health and scientific affairs. "The typical American family," he told a Planned Parenthood conference last week, "will elect to have three children...
...them as "spaghetti," the Germans call them "sauerkraut" and the Americans say that they are "for the birds." Yet, after three weeks of wrangling in the usually placid Swiss town of Lausanne, representatives of the 22 scheduled lines that fly the Atlantic were unable to agree on new, uniform rates. The result last week was that the Atlantic lines began operating under an anarchy called the "open rate." That means that until they agree on rates they can charge almost any fare that they want...
...fare feud stems from the rising threat of cut-rate charter flights, which last year carried 14% of the passengers who flew the Atlantic. The only way for the scheduled lines to stall the charters is to reduce their own rates. A major impediment is that many of the state-run European carriers, which dominate the International Air Transport Association, have traditionally argued for higher fares. The U.S. lines have long pressed for reduced rates, figuring that lower fares would attract more customers and ultimately increase profits. But the U.S. lines are a minority within the IATA cartel. Another complicating...