Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen years the birth rate in overcrowded Japan has fallen from 30 to about 23 per 1,000 per year. Only one-fifth of this drop, Dr. Pommerenke believes, has been brought about by contraception. The rest is due to abortions. One reason: knowledge of contraceptives has not reached many areas. But a more effective reason is that in the cities, where contraceptive knowledge and materials are readily available, many women take their chances on an occasional abortion. On the average it probably costs no more than $5 -less than the price of a year's supply of contraceptives...
...Drought. But by and large, a farmer's prosperity depends on where he lives, and how good a farmer he is. In the drought-parched wheat-producing plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas, where the moisture level has reached an alltime low, farm income has fallen as much as 75%-Some small farmers have quit and are moving to the cities or the oilfields. Big operators survived by cutting corners: laying off help, patching up equipment, postponing purchases...
Salesman Rantz soon owns everything, but finds himself utterly alone. Even Kula, the native girl who had fallen into his arms like a ripe mango, walks out on him. By now, Rantz finds that he has outsmarted himself. In his loneliness he rediscovers that over-Donne island truth: no man is an Hand, intire of itselfe. In his new humility he goes to the other side, finds that the powerless, possessionless exiles are living life as it was before the fall. Everything belongs to everybody; greed, hate and fear are gone with the trade winds, and love is as free...
...prepare scenery for three weird one-act plays. "The Marriage Proposal" by Chekhov is a marriage proposal which isn't, at least not until the longing-to-be-bride's father twists the scene until the knot is tied. Tennessee Williams' "The Strangest Kind of Romance" finds a man fallen in love with a cat. Animals also appear in Noel Coward's "Weatherwise" as people take to barking and scratching, and the real dogs on the set eat rugs...
...Manville lugged in a suitcase full of his canceled checks (item: $2,400 for a year's window cleaning at his Westchester County mansion). Asked about a string of checks he wrote to buy arch supports, Manville, ever the butt of his own gags, explained: "I got fallen arches carrying my first bride over the thresh-old." Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime...