Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salaried taxpayers in the middle and upper brackets took the worst beating. If he took the standard deduction, for example, a $20,000-a-year man with a wife and two children wound up $707.21 in the red-even though $2,975.79 had already been withheld. The smaller the brood, naturally, the more to brood about. While a married man with two children and an income of $7,500 came out $52 ahead, the $7,500-a-year career girl found herself $168.20 in debt to the Government...
...little recourse. U.S. life abounds with sobering instances. In Chicago in 1961, Negro Cab Driver Lawrence Boyd tried to stop three Negro muggers from robbing two white youths. Boyd was shot twice, paralyzed in one arm, lost his job, and is now $9,000 in debt. In Upper Darby, Pa., last fall, George Senn fired a shotgun in the air to prevent 20 thugs from attacking two girls and a boy outside his window. Senn was convicted of aggravated assault and battery, paid a $500 fine, and now faces a damage suit from his "victims...
...Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
...years. His course in the history of the novel has been the most popular in the Department for five years outside he required English 70 and English 10. Between 1500 and 2000 Harvard and Radcliffe students have taken Rosenberg's courses. He has taught creative writing English C and upper-level seminars to over 250 aspiring young writers...
Anyone who has lived in an upper- suburb already knows Richard Rovere's Barry Goldwater. He the man-at-the-backyard-barbecue, , good-natured, gadget-ridden: pleasant person to chat with in the afternoon. But one knows better to let politics meander into the conversation, for geniality will soon way to deadly serious declamations about Creeping Socialism, Communism Within Our Gates, the Fall the Roman Empire, the Sanctity Private Property--followed by an embarrassed grin and a question about your golf game...