Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine is Nikita Khrushchev's reply to persistent criticism of the Kremlin's ill-concealed antiSemitism. For years, the Soviet Premier argued that Russia's Jews were really not interested in Jewish culture, but the 1959 Soviet census destroyed his argument. Of 2,268,000 Russian Jews, nearly half a million listed Yiddish as their native tongue. Almost as if he were admitting his error, Khrushchev authorized the publication of Sovietish Heimland...
...guerrilla's handbook, not all of them deadly. Gangs disguised as official mosquito-spray teams walk into villages to confiscate farm equipment in the name of the government; sometimes they tear up peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among the border tribesmen in the thickly wooded Annamese highlands to the north. By day Saigon, a city...
...House of Representatives normally reapportions its 435 seats according to population changes reflected in each national census. And the last census established an average state population increase of 18.5%. No fewer than 25 state's face the perils of reapportionment, either because they outstripped the average and gained seats, or because they fell below the average and lost...
...Census Bureau figures show that of the 15 million Americans aged 65 and over, 55% have cash incomes of less than $1,000, whereas 23% have $1,000 to $2,000, and 22% have $2,000 or more. The figures include social security payments but do not indicate how many oldsters are taking cash handouts from their children. HEW also finds that the over-65s use 2½ times as much hospital service as the U.S. average. Recognizing that old people indeed have a serious problem, the A.M.A. backs a law that Congress passed last year in the heat...
...population center has been inching inexorably westward ever since the first census in 1790 located it near Chestertown, Md., 701 miles east of the Kleiboeker farm. Thanks to the addition of two new states (and a 28 million increase since the 1950 census), the jump from the old population center in Olney, Ill., is the biggest of the century: 57 miles...