Word: connecticut
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Life & Death. Americans celebrate 1,566,793 marriages and agonize over 388,000 divorces in a year. The typical groom is 23.8, the bride 21.4 (they are oldest in Connecticut-23.6; youngest in Idaho-20.9). The nation's 46,828,000 families are smaller (3.4 persons) than in 1940 (3.77) or in 1890 (4.93). The U.S. has 814,000 more married women than married men (due to reporting discrepancies and absences of husbands on overseas assignments), but Mormon Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than...
...disease (545,675) and cancer (215,525), both of them highest in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, lowest in New Mexico. Infant mortality (28.4 under a year old per 1,000 live births) is down from 47 in 1940, 99.9 in 1915. It is highest in New Mexico, lowest in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In a year 7,495 Americans are murdered (but the rate is lower than in any year since 1910) and 15,909 are suicides (less per capita than in any year since...
...crown; they could even lose to the Crimson if Penn ties or beats Cornell. But after losing to Army and Princeton in successive weeks, Yale does not want to lose. It will never be more "up" than it is this afternoon. The Elis opened their season with wins over Connecticut, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Dartmouth, plus a tie with Colgate...
...Univac's mistaken idea that a Democratic sweep was in the making, Collingwood thinks it resulted from the fact that the first two states to report-Delaware and Connecticut-showed a heavier Democratic vote than was true of the national scene. Explains Collingwood, defensively: "After all, Univac is only human-that is, it can only make predictions based on the material that humans feed into it." Collingwood asked an attendant mathematician if he could explain what went wrong, and got the Einsteinian answer: "It may be in the taxability of the K factor...
Judy Holliday is a Connecticut-style...