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Under such circumstances, it will take many years for the underdeveloped nations to stabilize their populations. But the odds are that they eventually will. As Stanford Sociologist Dudley Kirk puts it, "When people get a higher level of civilization, they realize they don't have to have eight children for three to survive. So they have fewer children and higher aspirations for them. This is universal...
Longevity, translated into mass markets and repeated showings, is obviously the key to the new corporate film wave. It has an allure not confined to members of FORTUNE'S august list of the 500 largest U.S. industrial companies. Kirk Douglas, after 25 years as one of Hollywood's most backable stars, recently had trouble raising money for A Gunfight, a property with a strong screenplay starring himself and Johnny Cash (see CINEMA). Then the Jicarilla Apaches, a wealthy Indian tribe (gas leases and mineral rights) with a sophisticated investment policy offered to put up the entire $2 million...
Muscular Giant. The American-Western merger was negotiated last fall by Spater and Kirk Kerkorian, the Western board chairman, more on the grounds of convenience than necessity or public interest. Spater contended, however, that the merger would generate $50 million in new annual profits-$22 million in increased revenues and $28 million in cost savings. Yet some CAB economists predict a $20 million burden of cost increases on the merged carrier...
...Home Matches. "The recession in the film business has affected everyone," says Anne Douglas, wife of Kirk. The Douglas home is on the market, priced at $750,000. Nor is it languishing alone up on the block: there are twice as many houses in the Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills areas listed this year as last year. George Hamilton sold his 39-room manor for $300,000, then squeezed himself into a nine-room house...
T.R.A. youngsters, says Sociologist Kirk, can become "people between worlds." Other things being equal, Montreal's Open Door Society concedes, placing black children with black parents is best. The trouble is that other things rarely are equal; too few black families can afford adoption, and most are reluctant to apply for children because they are afraid of being rejected by white adoption agencies. But given a choice between leaving black kids (or children of other racial minorities) in institutions or placing them with willing white families, most experts would vote for the latter. Says Clayton Hagen of the Lutheran...