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Your statement that "population experts still have no real idea what makes people decide to have more or fewer babies" may be explained by considering the very nature of the marital act. Unless the couple are responsible citizens, both socially and morally, not much thought of babies, pro or con, enters" the picture...
...what he would do for a dying man and answering "Hear his confession and give him absolution." The correct military answer was: "Give him a cigarette and take any last message he may have for his family." In the spring of 1915 Knox drew up 31 propositions pro and con his submitting to the Church of Rome, but it was not until September 1917 that the pros...
Pressure is only part of it. More and more missilemen suspect that the real problem is Martin's management. Critics point to a series of personnel shifts, con fusion and poor morale throughout the company. At times, the troubleshooters sent out from Baltimore only stepped on each other's toes, and compounded the trouble they were sent to fix. For some plant areas, everything operates by word of mouth. In others red tape is so thick that the head of a subdepartment must clear everything he does with his department chief. Martin's men at Cape Canaveral...
Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a close community were especially prone, has added 14 years to a 20-year-old nun's life expectancy since the turn of the century. After comparing 90,000 nuns in 90 sisterhoods with white females throughout the U.S., from 1900 to 1958, Dr. Fecher also estimated that...
Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). As a Western con man, the late Errol Flynn (on film) peddles his saloon just before the mines that support the town play...