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...birth rate-yearly births per 1,000 population-began its decline in 1958, twelve years after its precipitate climb, then drifted slowly downward through '59, '60, and '61. In 1962 the curve dropped sharply and continued its steep dip through the first months of 1966. Preliminary figures for the first two months of this year show an even lower rate than for the same period in 1965. The fertility rate, which relates directly to the number of young people rather than to the population as a whole, has shown a slightly slower drop because the young, "fertile...
...Operations Colonel Thomas D. ("Robbie") Robertson observed, "one hell of a good bird." The Phantom, at 1,584 m.p.h. on the straightaway, is swifter (by some 300 m.p.h.) and more powerful. But the lighter, single-seat MIG-21 has an advantage in maneuverability, and a 10% faster rate of climb...
Parsimony & Patriotism. President Johnson's economists still hope for a second-quarter slowdown, and they have several factors working for them. Defense spending should climb by no more than $1.5 billion in the second quarter, and by $300 million each in the third and fourth. Businessmen may well pare their capital investment because of labor shortages and delays in deliveries, not to mention Johnson's appeals that equate parsimony with patriotism. As for consumers, the higher payroll withholding taxes beginning next week will cut their disposable income by $150 million a month.* And the speed...
...marathon of evolution, it has been fashionable to pity the poor insects for entering a blind alley of biology that mammalry was smart enough to miss. To promote a larger sense of reality, Entomologist Ross E. Hutchins in this unusually competent volume of popular science invites the reader to climb modestly down the Tree of Life and to shinny out on a branch of evolution unimaginably larger and in many respects more fruitful than...
Rising every year since 1959, expenditures for office building in the U.S. reached a peak of $2.5 billion last year, but the Census Bureau expects these figures to climb another 16% to $2.9 billion in 1966. New contracts for office buildings surged 25% ahead of their 1965 pace during the first two months of this year, according to F. W. Dodge construction statistics...