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America's post-World War II baby boom has swollen the traditional crime-prone age bracket (14 to 24) as never before???and possibly never again. In 1950 there were 24 million young Americans in this age group. A decade later it was 27 million, and now it is 44 million; the bulge will not disappear until the 1980s...
...Washington wives who take it all in stride are Adele Rogers and Barbara Laird, long comfortably ensconced in their smoothly functioning, swimming-pooled Bethesda homes. Both have been the capital route before???Defense Secretary Laird was a Congressman and Secretary of State Rogers was Eisenhower's Attorney General. "The wife of the Secretary of State has more fun than the wife of the Attorney General," says Mrs. Rogers. That may give Martha Mitchell ideas of making her presence felt in the soft-voiced world of high-level diplomacy...
...Since then, many Menominees have had to sell their lands to pay taxes in their new ownership status. The Indian hospital shut down and sawmill profits dwindled. As a result, the state paid out more than six times as much money in welfare to the Menominees as before???and the Menominees lost their identity. "The Menominee tribe is dead," reports Professor Gary Orfield in a study for the University of Chicago, "but for no good reason." Also terminated in 1961, Oregon's Klamath tribe suffered soaring
...that the pneumatic uplift of a Raquel Welch is suddenly undesirable. But it is only one of many symbols. There have been haunted girls and unprepossessing men before???Audrey Hepburn was never known for her measurements, and Humphrey Bogart commanded affection even though he looked accident-prone. But there has never before been such a crowd of real faces, so many young actors resembling young audiences?and young audiences pay for 65% of the movie tickets in America...
...imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into the seat in his dark business suit and upturned fedora, started the engine and began?as he had in a Russian pasture 30 years before???trying to learn to fly a strange, new and hideously uncertain machine...