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...answers go back to puberty, and the popular fallacy that girls mature faster than boys. Kinsey notes that girls reach puberty a year earlier than boys, but this is only the beginning of adolescence and is no index to sexual maturity. Boys reach maturity (the height of their physical power for sexual activity) by their late teens, and are already on the downgrade in their early 203. But the curve of a girl's growing need for sex (or the breaking down of her inhibitions) rises only slowly in her teens,* keeps on rising slowly until...
...items used to calculate the cost of living, its virtual disappearance might justify demands for higher wages, with strikes to enforce the demands. Already newspapers were calling the disease a national calamity. Said the Paris-Presse : "Myxomatosis not only menaces our rabbits; it also menaces our living-cost index." The Communists, of course, were blaming the whole thing on "les Ricains" (Americans...
...basis of the old index, which was abandoned this week, since the new one has become generally accepted, the July 1952 record of 192.4 of the 1935-39 average still stands, though the old index has also edged up to 190.9. It does not include such items as transportation, medical care and recreation which are in the new index...
...cost of living hit an alltime high in mid-June. On the basis of the new BLS index, it reached 114.5 of the 1947-49 average (.2% more than the previous high recorded last August*), chiefly because of a 1.4 increase in food prices. For 100,000 workers in aircraft and glass plants, the March to June rise means a wage boost of i? to 2? an hour...
...signs indicated that the index will rise some more, despite the Korean truce. Any cuts in defense spending were expected to be slight and gradual, and defense officials estimated that only about $1 billion might be trimmed from the current fiscal year's arms spending. Commodity prices, which hit a low point six weeks ago, have bounced up, indicating higher retail prices ahead. Meat prices have steadily climbed. At Chicago, the wholesale price of cattle has gone up 25%, the price of hogs has also increased. But the biggest increase will come in rents, following the dropping of federal...