Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American children now under 18 will go to college,-if parental ambitions are realized. The expectation is highest in the mountain states (80%), lowest in New England...
...savings plans (40%) managed to save only a median $150 last year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about the economics of higher education...
Faced with the man-sized problem of filling another hour of its irregularly scheduled documentary series titled Woman!, the CBS news staff asked itself a challenging question: "Is the American woman losing her femininity?" On the debatable premise that San Francisco is "a woman's city, where men are very outspoken about femininity," the network last week turned west for its answer...
...wrong with their wives, the best thing to do was "assert our power and not wash any more dishes." One gallant type, glooming behind a dark, straggling mustache, observed that European women "make a man feel 20 feet tall. I just don't get that satisfaction from the American female. She's reluctant to say anything inspiring to me about my appearance or abilities or talents or whatever." It was all so odd that Hostess Esther Williams, an athletic sort and no clinging vine, was moved to comment on one male's observation...
This made nine satellites circling the earth. Eight of them are American: three Vanguards, three Explorers, and two Discoverers. They range in weight from a 3.25-lb. instrumented Vanguard to an empty 1,700-lb. second stage of a Discoverer. The other is Russia's massive space body. Sputnik III (2,134 Ibs.); the other two Sputniks have fallen back into the atmosphere and burned up. Of the U.S. satellites, the grapefruit-sized Vanguard I is expected to keep circling for 2,000 years, the basketball-sized Vanguard II for 200 years. Both Vanguard I and Explorer VI have...