Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because of the 1970 census two U.S. Representatives now find themselves struggling for the same seat: David Obey, 34, a popular Democratic liberal; and Alvin O'Konski, 68, the 14-term Republican incumbent noted locally for his support of Project Sanguine, a costly Navy communications system that would involve burying 6,000 miles of antenna throughout northern Wisconsin's forests. That issue, coupled with the farmers' anger over the controversial Russian wheat deal and George McGovern's surprising strength in the area (polls show him even with Nixon), has put Obey in a strong position. Concedes...
However, Mr. Shapiro is far from the truth in matters of statistics, and consequently his conclusions are misleading. Some figures will illustrate the point: Portugal's population (European territory), according to the 1970 census, was 9,700,000; not 7 million. Even in 1960 the population of Metropolitan Portugal stood at 8.6 million. The total emigration amounted to less than 1 million over the last ten years, not 1.5 million. Half of the stated 140,000 men in the Portuguese armed forces serving in the entire Portuguese territory (842,686 square miles) is composed of blacks drawn from the local...
...data including the 1966 Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey (the Coleman Report), a survey of the nation's educational resources which prompted Congress to push for school integration and compensatory education programs. Jencks's group also reevaluated Project Talent's longitudinal study of students in 100 high schools and Census Bureau studies of social mobility and income distributed. Their conclusions--which have drawn praise from Newsweek as "a potentially liberating force for American education," and damnation in a New York Times editorial...
Volumes I through V of the Plan are nearly done. They survey the success of previous planning efforts, planning philosophies, raw census data, traffic flow, and the visual environment of the Square...
...votes were cast with feet and tallies read off odometers, the West would win the U.S. popularity contest in a landslide. The 1970 census figures show that the population of mountain and Pacific states has increased by 24.1 % since 1960. v. an increase on the other side of the Great Divide of only 11%. Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," is still being heeded by young and old alike, in spite of the fact that the "frontier" is now posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature...