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According to a recent survey by the Chicago Planning Council on Aging, 41% of the city's 518,000 residents over 60 feel that crime is their most serious concern. "Statistically speaking," says Robert J. Ahrens, director of the Mayor's office for senior citizens, "the elderly aren't victims of crime more often than other age groups. But the effects are much more severe. If a young woman is knocked down during a purse snatching, she gets up with a few bruises. If an 80-year-old woman is knocked down, she could suffer a broken...
...they nonetheless accuse the commission of rigging the evidence. Produced by 162 commission staffers in ten months' time, the report based its findings on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif, Minneapolis, Stamford, Conn., and Corpus Christi, Texas), a mail survey of 1,300 school districts, and analyses of 29 school districts scattered across the nation. But in a memo to the eight regional directors, the commission director of field operations, Isiah T. Creswell Jr., wrote: "In the hearings, the emphasis will be more on districts that have made positive steps...
James Morse '78, a CUE member who recently conducted a survey showing that students opposed splitting reading period, said yesterday most student CUE members would prefer a calendar that placed final exams before Christmas, but such a change was not among the council's proposals...
Still, no voting group was more decisive than the blacks. Carter lost the white vote, 47.6% to 51.3%. But he won roughly 92% of the 6.6 million black votes, according to Washington's Joint Center for Political Studies. Though a CBS survey gave Carter only 82% of the black vote and the analysis by Pollster Louis Harris gave him 87.3%, the Joint Center is considered more reliable since it compiled statistics from 1,165 precincts where blacks account for 87% or more of the population. Carter's showing compares well with George McGovern...
According to Japanese tradition, Hirohito's reign has been given its own descriptive name-showa, or enlightened peace. The Emperor predicted a bountiful future for his subjects if Japan continues to cooperate in establishing world peace. To judge by a recent survey, the Emperor system is likely to be part of that future for a long, long time. Fully 80% of the Japanese questioned approved of it; 10% of them even thought the imperial prerogatives should be increased...