Word: childlessness
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...London alone, seven families each day become officially homeless, and the rate is rising. Most often the victims are young couples with several children. Landlords can rent single rooms most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords...
...long social conscience and its incredibly productive economy. Thanks to better medical care, there are fewer orphans today. Few mothers die in childbirth; fathers live longer. Even if the father dies, social security payments enable a mother to keep her children with her. Furthermore, almost any average childless couple that wants a child can afford one. Result: more couples clamoring for babies than there are babies to adopt-and the highest rate of adoption of any nation in the world...
Back home in Maine, Senator Smith, a childless widow, shrugged off the blast, suggested, "Mr. Khrushchev is angry because American officials have grown more firm since my speech." But Laborite Shinwell was sorry that the U.S. took so little heed of Moscow's noise, commented, "Although Khrushchev makes a slashing attack on Americans in his letter, he emphasizes that he wants peace. I am convinced he means it if we will play ball with...
...between 18½ and 26 will have been inducted. The order of drafting will be: 1) men who failed to keep contact with their draft boards, or report changes of status, and are thereby considered delinquent; 2) men who volunteer; 3) still undrafted single men and childless married men between 18½ and 26 years old; 4) fathers in the same age bracket. Students and workers in essential industries will continue to receive deferments...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tonight's story concerns black-market babies and the crooks who act as liaison between unmarried mothers and childless couples, sometimes reportedly charging as much as $10,000 an infant...