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...Joint Center has redrawn school district lines on the basis of extensive census data showing where Negro school children live. They are now checking the proposed new districts on a Harvard computer to make sure that they will not force children to walk too great a distance to school...
...Johnson Administration is clearly losing its campaign against documentary inflation. Despite the President's orders to curb what he calls "paperwork run wild," the new agencies, new projects and new functions of the Great Society are piling up Himalayas of foolscap. The House Subcommittee on Census and Statistics, which last week ended a round of hearings on the subject (also voluminous), showed that the Government now prints twelve different forms each year for every American, circulates more than a billion all told, many for eventual return and storage. Washington spends $7 billion annually to make, process and store this...
Rising every year since 1959, expenditures for office building in the U.S. reached a peak of $2.5 billion last year, but the Census Bureau expects these figures to climb another 16% to $2.9 billion in 1966. New contracts for office buildings surged 25% ahead of their 1965 pace during the first two months of this year, according to F. W. Dodge construction statistics...
...uniting them. Nkrumah was a petulant oppressor who demanded constant adulation for himself and the wild schemes that all but sent his country into bankruptcy. In Nigeria, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, although personally respected, presided over a conspicuously corrupt regime that stayed in power by rigging the census, playing one tribe against another, and cheating at the polls...
Using information taken from census rolls, the students will visit assigned homes and inquire if the occupants have signed up. If they haven't the students will take down the names to make sure the people receive the proper enrollment forms in time for the March 31 deadline...