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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...
...years, in fact, the American birth rate has always been on the way down, an anomaly explained by the heroic childbearing habits of the founding mothers, who averaged 8.3 children each. The '40s and the '50s, according to the demographers, were simply an upward jiggle on the downward line...
...Ages. Although they acknowledged that God was ultimately unknowable, the medieval scholastics devoted page after learned page of their summas to discussions of the divine attributes?his omnipotence, immutability, perfection, eternity. Although infinitely above men, God was seen as the apex of a great pyramid of being that extended downward to the tiniest stone, the ultimate ruler of an ordered cosmos cooperatively governed by Christian church and Christian state...
...Brilliant had investigated sufficiently to become convinced that Hilton's top brass had rigged the market price prior to the offer in order to sell 101,000 of their own shares to the company at a fat personal profit. After that, the price of Hilton stock plunged downward, and the company passed its usual dividend...
Author Iglauer, the wife of The New Yorker Writer Philip Hamburger, flew to Northern Canada, attended the conferences as an observer, learned how to walk in deep snow (bend the knees to exert a forward rather than downward thrust) and got an Eskimo name: Oneekatualeeotae, "The woman who tells the story." She tells it deliberately and unemotionally, but she provides plenty for the reader to feel emotional about...