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...paucity of beauty can be blamed on nobody but ourselves. We are members of an age in which every item in a household is machine-made. There are many gifted artists among us today who need to be supported physically and emotionally. If the American public cannot support its artists, all it can expect is increasingly inflated prices for all artwork. Ann Rodenkirk Tucson...
Every known household-defined as a single person, a family, or people living together as a unit-will receive a questionnaire by mail. About 90% will be asked to send back their completed forms; the remaining 10%, living for the most part in remote rural areas where returns in the past have been poor, will be instructed to keep their forms until they are picked up by a census taker...
...household does not mail back a questionnaire, it will be sought out by one of the census takers, called enumerators. Judging from the past, they may have trouble. The counters often run into suspicious or hostile people who slam the door in their faces or even threaten them physically. Discouraged enumerators may then indulge in what is called curbstoning, making up phony statistics. This year the enumerators will face additional problems. Since more married women are working (50%, compared with 40% in 1970), fewer will be home during the day to provide the census taker with information...
...Naples shows only too well. Despite the mayor's efforts to build employment, Naples still has the highest proportion of jobless in Italy, 84,000, or 14% of the labor force. While able-bodied men seek jobs, employers farm out work to be done illegally in household sweatshops, where women and children toil for minuscule wages without benefit of social security, labor laws or other protection...
...worked in a room called the Black Vault, off limits to all but half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling: the CIA was spying by satellite on friendly nations like France and Israel and trying to topple the new leftist government of Australia...