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...than 20%, almost three times the national average, and more than the U.S. rates for either blacks (15%) or Hispanics (11.2%). About one-third of Watts families exist below the poverty line. The city and county human relations commissions report that the south-central area containing Watts had "the highest infant mortality rate, the lowest rate of immunization, the highest incidence of communicable disease . . . and the fewest doctors per capita in the county...
Younger people are staying single by postponing marriage. Couples are taking their vows more than two years later on average than they were just 15 years ago: the median marriage age is 23.3 years for women, highest in U.S. history, and 25.5 for men, just below the 26.1-years average at the turn of the century. High rents are also forcing young adults to remain at home. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 62% of men and 47% of women still live with their parents--a mixed blessing that neither parents nor restive children may prefer. "Home is where...
...have her eye on the executive suite 27 years ago, when she took a part-time sales job in a Point Pleasant, W. Va., department store. But that is just where she is after a successful career in retailing. As president of Limited Stores, she is perhaps the highest-ranking woman to have worked her way up in a major American corporation. Her ambition today is both simple and lofty. Says she: "My current goal is to be the best corporate president in the nation...
...astonishing that even today the U.S. Immigration Service has no uniform policy for handling defections like that of Sailor Medvid. In light of U.S. incompetence at the lowest level, what hope can there be for success at the nation's highest echelons? Heinz Dieter Chiba Montreal Ransoming Relatives...
...gotta do what a man's gotta do. Arduousness follows, an endless subverbal sequence in which the hero trains in the vast primitive fastness of the Soviet wilderness, with only his own fighting spirit to sustain him as he chops wood, lifts rocks and runs up the highest mountain for a socko finish. Crosscut with this lonely ordeal are shots of Drago, who has an entire collective of helpers and all the latest electronic and chemical gizmos working on his muscle tone...