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...improved medical care. It can also be noted in news-media treatment of the elderly. Bengtson has counted the number of items concerning senior citizens in three leading newspapers-the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times-in 1960 and 1972 and noted a sixfold increase. Nevertheless, Congress has yet to fund the National Institutes of Health's newly created Institute on Aging. The institute is requesting a budget of only about $13.8 million this year, less than one-fourth the amount sought for research on child health and development. With more elderly people, such...
Such ardent loyalty has made McDonald's one of the business successes of the century. Since the company sold stock to the public in 1965, system-wide sales have increased sixfold, from $170.8 million a year to the $1.03 billion in 1972, and profits have zoomed from $3.8 million to $36.2 million. Company-owned outlets now account for about 28% of sales and 16% of profits. In the first six months of 1973, sales rose 47% and profits 46% above a year earlier. The growth has kept the stock at stratospheric heights; $5,000 invested in McDonald...
...York City Mayor John Lindsay faces perhaps the most staggering crisis of all. His welfare population?1,100,000, every seventh New Yorker?could constitute the seventh largest municipality in the U.S. The aid bill for that doomed city within the city last year: $1.7 billion, a sixfold increase in a decade. As is the case with so much of the welfare nightmare, Lindsay's problems mix the pathetic and the bizarre; to his horror welfare officials recently lodged an indigent family at the Waldorf Astoria for a day, claiming absurdly that there was no room elsewhere. Many others...
Often spurred by the utilities' own advertising campaigns, Americans are so avid for laborsaving machines that power output now doubles every ten years to meet demand. By the end of the century, some experts say, the nation's electricity requirements may well rise sixfold. Worse, the kilowatt craze poses serious problems not only for power companies but also for nature and human health...
...that she wanted to become a doctor. Penniless when she finished pre-med courses at New York City's Hunter College in the depths of the Depression, she toiled twelve years as a white-collar worker in a trucking company, saving $12,000 while helping the firm increase sixfold in size. Then, after four years at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she spent ten years as intern, resident and ultimately chief of clinics at the Cornell Division of New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center, and built up a flourishing Park Avenue practice...