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...Bravo for the National Council of Churches, which asked the Catholic hierarchy: "If Roman Catholics are not exerting themselves any more sacrificially than $30 or $40 per year per capita to keep their schools going, why should the rest of society make up the difference...
...regard their nation, and with good reason. In contrast to its neighbors, little Costa Rica (1.9 million people living in an area about the size of West Virginia) has a genuine democracy and no army to speak of. It also has the highest literacy rate and third highest per capita annual income (about $539) in Central America. Recently, however, both its tranquillity and its reputation have been somewhat impaired by the presence of fugitive American Financier Robert L. Vesco, who moved there a year ago and has remained in order to escape the subpoena jurisdiction of U.S. courts (TIME...
...Catholic cause-tax credits for parents of nonpublic-school students. The council insisted that Catholics are simply "unwilling" to give funds to keep their schools open, rather than "unable" to do so. "If Roman Catholics are not exerting themselves any more sacrificially than $30 or $40 per year per capita to keep their schools going," asked the council statement, "why should the rest of society make up the difference?" The statement aroused such anger among Catholics that the council's two top leaders said they had not authorized it and ordered a revision...
...region's 123,000 year-round residents were impressed. With a per capita income that ranges from $500 to $1,500 less than the state average, and an unemployment rate that can reach 25% in the winter, they felt that what the region needed most was the broadened economic base (new jobs, new tax revenues and higher land prices) that rapid development promises. At public hearings in January, the residents expressed their opposition. "You are going to preserve the Adirondacks' extreme poverty," charged David Fox, a property holder in Warren County. Added James Dudley, a landowner in Fort...
...survey of 1,179 colleges and universities found that salaries in 1972-73 rose 4.1% over the previous year while, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of living went up 3.3%. Still, the professors did not fare as well as the average American, whose per capita income rose 7.7% last year. The survey disclosed that the best-paid faculty members were at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where the average professor is paid $30,303 in salary and fringe benefits for nine months' work; the New School for Social Research...