Word: childlessness
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...inducting men for "any but military service has to be looked upon very suspiciously." Hershey rejected outright a suggestion by Committee Chairman Lucius Mendel Rivers of South Carolina that the induction-age ceiling be lowered from 26; in fact, he favors raising the ceiling to include single men and childless husbands...
...system has not only succeeded in making divorce unpleasant, complicated and expensive; it has been woefully ineffective in its original aim of holding down divorce and protecting society from the problems that breakups produce. Roughly 400,000 U.S. couples are being divorced each year. About 40% of them are childless; the rest have some 500,000 children, two-thirds of them under the age of ten. More than 6,000,000 Americans are now divorced or separated, and divorce seems to breed divorce: probably half of all divorced Americans are the children of divorced parents. Divorce or separation occur most...
...only state with only one ground for divorce: adultery as proved by third-party testimony. As a result, divorces that are contested by one of the parties roil in perjury and mudslinging. In uncontested cases, New Yorkers can get divorced by hiring a professional "other woman," but many childless couples prefer to seek annulments based on phony claims of refusal to bear children; New York has more annulments than any other state. Whatever their other disagreements, affluent couples usually agree to flee to divorce in easier states. A strong drive is being conducted in the New York legislature to reform...
...became a millionaire. A few are right. The rest provide employment for lawyers, archivists and private detectives-especially in France, where the search for several legacies has gone on for generations. None of them is more fabulous than that of Jean-Pierre Mallet, who, so the story goes, died childless in 1818 in Winooski, Vt., leaving behind properties that stretched from the shores of Lake Champlain all the way to Chicago...
...Broadway. Movie Director Bud Yorkin borrows bits of Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation of her mother's impending event by crying tearfully: "All men are horrible!" The ribaldry of Never Too Late will seem...