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...verbal and 710 in math -- a level which has varied little over the past few years. "The scores have remained constant at least partly because of our efforts to get students from rural areas and urban slums; they don't score as well as those from suburbia," Smith said...
...beefing up its effort to attract new industries, it drives old ones away by reason of costs and congestion, smog and stickups, traffic and taxes that rise in a wry ratio with strikes and relief rolls. Over the last decade, companies have followed the flood of families to suburbia's fresher air and greener acres, draining the city of 17,000 industrial jobs a year. And so far this year, the exodus has continued at a startling rate...
...Jersey, seven of the U.S.'s largest companies had opted out of Fun City, as Mayor John Lindsay likes to call it, within a year. At week's end, pint-sized (250 employees) Bohn Business Machines announced that it would also quit Park Avenue for suburbia. President Arnold Perry blamed rising city taxes and sky-high commercial rents...
Time was when a young clergyman could expect his first pulpit to be a rural clapboard church whose faithful accorded him and his preaching unquestioning respect. Today, he is more apt to find himself confronted with spiritual drift in suburbia or explosive hatred in an urban ghetto-and every-where by growing skepticism about the value of religion. Last week the American Association of Theological Schools published a study that bluntly accused most Protestant seminaries of being ill-equipped to train clergymen for ministering to today's world...
...Sabbath. The Conservatives can drive on the Sabbath and, while they view the dietary laws as binding, do not observe them so strictly as the Orthodox. Reform Jews, of course, have no dietary proscriptions, treat the Sabbath much as Christians now treat Sunday. With the growth of suburbia and the resultant distances be tween homes and synagogues, however, more Orthodox Jews are driving to their synagogues. The difference between Conservative and Orthodox Jews in the U.S., says one rabbi, is nowadays only one block: the Conservatives drive right up to the synagogue, while the Orthodox park a block away...