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Officials attribute the decline to a number of factors. The 1970s have brought both the close of the postwar baby boom that swelled the ranks of college-age youth in the 1960s and the end of the Viet Nam conflict, which drove many young people to seek shelter on campus from the Selective Service. Vocational schools are becoming more popular, while fewer parents are willing or able to cope with rising college costs (the current annual average at private four-year schools...
...with the latest crises, or that those which do should be managed as base camps for relief expeditions; but it has evinced considerable awareness of a duty to serve society's immediate needs, and of the fact that these needs often simplify into such mundane requirements as food, clothing, shelter, health, and peace...
...fashioned method is the unabashed use of straight description, as in A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street, the one New York story in Christmas Eve. It begins, characteristically, in a very low key, as a painstaking portrait of a small French restaurant, and the people who shelter there from the snow. But the author finally produces a freeze-frame of private desperation, the characters savagely revealed in a moment of vulnerability and compromise...
Davis' rise is the culmination of the dreams of his grandfather, C.M. Harris, who at the turn of the century determined to carve out an economic niche that would shelter his descendants from segregation. He started a funeral home and later founded the Protective Industrial Insurance Co. of Alabama. In 1967 it put up the money with which the Acamar Realty and Insurance Agency-of which Davis is part owner-bought the site for Briarmont. The profits from developing it and other business deals, plus the growing income from his law practice (more than $40,000 last year), could...
...recently revised upward from $4,275 due to a rise in the consumer price index, is an income of $4,500 for a nonfarm family of four.) Inflation has hurt the black poor particularly cruelly because they have to spend a larger percentage of their income for food and shelter than middle-income people do, and prices for these basics have been spiraling. A Congressional Joint Economic Committee study concludes that last year people in the poverty category suffered about one-third more inflation than middle-and upper-income earners...