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...York City's diverse and massive ethnic groups give politicians nightmares and pollsters the palsy. City census figures show 15% of New Yorkers are Negro, 8% Puerto Rican, 11% Italian, 4% Irish. There are an estimated 1,800,000 Jews, 3,400,000 Roman Catholics, and 1,700,000 Protestants. And there are 3½ times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. Thus, the rare Republican candidate who wins the mayoralty (the last was Fiorello La Guardia in 1941) must straddle a multitude of attitudes. He must seem liberal enough to win over people who normally vote Democratic, correct...
...double his salary with extracurricular jobs shouldn't be here," says Brandeis Sociology Chairman John R. Seeley. A sociologist can command $100 a day as a consultant to industry, up to $90 a day as adviser to such federal agencies as the National Institutes of Health, CIA, Census Bureau, State Department, Office of Economic Opportunity, and Office of Education. Sociologist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) left Chicago for Harvard in 1958, not for money ("Any time I'm hard up I can give a lecture somewhere"), but because he was offered a special chair that would permit...
...below last year's disappointing 1,591,000, and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler calls housing one the U.S. economy's few "sputtering" segments. Yet the home buyer has to pay at least 3% more than a year ago. Throughout the U.S., reports the Census Bureau, the median price for new houses has jumped in the past year from just under $19,000 to about $20,000. The rise is even sharper in big cities' from $24,400 to $27,100 in the pas year in the Chicago area...
...Perhaps the major danger today is only that we will be catch-phrased and crisis-mongered to death," writes Ben J. Wattenberg, a 32-year-old native of New York who has collaborated with former U.S. Census Director Richard M. Scammon on a book called This U.S.A. To be published next month, it is a product of 18 months that Wattenberg spent analyzing findings of the exhaustive 1960 decennial census, with Scammon's expert guidance. The book's refreshing and detailed conclusion is that the current proliferation of "capital-lettered afflictions" is largely a mirage. Wattenberg writes: "There...
Hooverville shanties went out with the 1930s, and Government-subsidized apartments are climbing skyward in the slums, but most of the poor continue to suffer mean and overcrowded shelter. The 1960 census listed 15.6 million of the nation's 58 million houses and apartments as substandard -including 3,000,000 shacks and tenements and 8,300,000 "deteriorating houses," where the poor often pay a higher rental per square foot than the middle classes do. Health is also a poverty problem. The poor suffer mental illness at a sinister rate, triple that of the middle and upper classes, according...