Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...
...side of the battle: a segment of New York's 1,500,000 seven-to 20-year-olds whose values have so warped to the point that their crime rate has risen 60% in five years. On the other side of the battle: New York City's police department, facing a problem that has no real precedent in the department's 329 years of dealing with every crime known...
...last week went a $30 million order from Northwest Airlines for five extra-long-range DC-8 jet transports, thus launching the last of the major U.S. airlines into the jet age. The announcement pushed total commercial jet orders to 262, but it brought no cheers from one important segment of the industry: the men who run the crowded U.S. airways. It was one more reminder that the jet age is practically upon them...
...know whether they would agree or disagree with my own view that the greatest service of all performed by the CRIMSON is in its gathering of news. As the sole daily newspaper at Harvard, it is the principal, and almost the only medium which makes it possible for one segment of this society to learn what other segments are doing and to make known currently its own activities in important preliminary stages before those activities have reached the stage for more general publication in books or the public press. In fact, I have reason to believe that Faculty members, like...
This communal totality which the school offers does, however, possess some drawbacks. For the student body is in many respects a very homogeneous group. Almost all pupils come from "comfortable" if not wealthy homes and thus only a small segment of the economic spectrum is represented. There are hardly any Negro students (less than a half-dozen per class) in the group, although there is a high proportion of Jewish and Catholic pupils; but in a tolerant and religiously easy-going village like Scarsdale, religious friction within the school is negligible. Politically too, the range of allegiances is fairly middle...