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Died. Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 78, "Mother of the Year" in 1965, who believed that "Youngsters expect a little discipline," neither spared the rod nor spoiled the brood of five boys and a girl, saw her sons become president of the University of Utah, vice president of Western Electric, vice president of Sandia Corp., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, and a top researcher for NASA; of liver disease; in Salt Lake City...
...Beast and its hellish brood are the principal constituents of Fahrenheit 451, a number that both denotes the flash point of paper and identifies one of the innumerable book-burning brigades set up after World War III by a dictatorship determined to put out the fire of freedom in the human heart. Assembled first in that overproductive fiend factory, the fantascientific brain of Author Ray Bradbury, the brigade has now been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut in a weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind...
...subscribers attended college, nearly one-third of them going on to postgraduate work. Not counting retired people and students, the heads of family (and 73% of those quizzed were in this category) all work, an impressive 67% holding managerial or professional positions. Mr. Subscriber shows his concern for his brood by his investments: 94% have life insurance (average face value: $43,613), 67% own stocks and bonds. The average value of the TIME subscribing family's liquid assets is $37,441, which adds up to a spending potential of $124 billion...
...accent the negatives of youth, this fledgling work winsomely salutes the positives of ripe old age. Seventyish but young at heart, the heroine has barely buried her husband when her grown children begin debating what to do about Poor Mother. Poor Mother soon ends the debate and infuriates the brood by doing just as she pleases...
Margaret Sanger started on a personal crusade to secure the freedom of the individual woman, whom she characterized as "a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world." But what she started on an individual level has since been heralded by demographers as one way of coping with the world's staggering population problem. She recognized this early. And, as a result of her efforts, the personal and planetary have been fused. Freely using contraceptive devices, women in India, Africa or the U.S. are staving off world-population pressures-while at the same time they enjoy the personal...