In this age of modern living, radio service to hotel guests is as essential and necessary to the guests pleasure and vay of living as running hot and cold water and private inside bath facilities. Transient and permanent ...

Recently, there has been a surge of criticism directed at various poverty programs in the United States. The critics of the poverty programs claim that they constitute only 'hand-outs' and 'made-work.' This thesis was ...

Substandard housing is a serious problem that affects the nation. In this country, over twenty million persons live in deteriorating or dilapidated houses. The City of Houston, Texas, is no exception to this problem. Over ...

Over seventy percent of the population of the United States now resides in urban areas. Most of these people reside in areas referred to as Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA). These SMSA account for only ten ...

Attitudes and beliefs of the Black sub-community of Houston, Texas were investigated. The two questions underlying the investigation were what were the beliefs and attitudes of the Black rank and file concerning population ...

A monthly index of industrial production is a significant economic indicator. A comparison of trends in physical output by the regional industries with trends in other regions or in the country as a whole is useful to the ...

Local political party activists have been described using several different 'models.' This thesis develops the professional-amateur framework to test against a sample of precinct committeemen, party activists, in Houston, ...

This thesis explores several issues concerning drug use in the Houston secondary schools. The source of data was the Drug Education Committee of the Houston Independent School District's 1970 study of drug use in the ...

This thesis is a replication of the study done by Otis and Beverly Duncan on residential distribution and occupational stratification. The 1960 Census Data for Houston, Texas, were used to ascertain whether the Duncans' ...

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court made a ruling declaring the states' laws against abortions to be unconstitutional. Since that time, clinics and hospitals all over the country have been performing thousands of abortions ...