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...machismo, a he-man complex that makes sexual prowess and large families-in or out of wedlock-a matter of male pride. In some areas of Latin America, a man who has fathered only five or six children may be regarded by his friends as something of a laggard, if not bordering on impotence. Many women resort to abortion as a form of birth control. For every birth in Uruguay, there are three abortions. In Brazil, some 2,000,000 women a year have abortions. Argentina has even begotten an industry of 6,000 registered midwives, most of whom specialize...
...concentration of sexual adventurism such as no network had ever risked before. In its first season, Peyton Place was so successful that in June the network added a third weekly show, making the schedule Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 9:30 p.m. (E.D.T.). Ever since, even the laggard in the entry was never out of the Top 15, and at one point, the whole trio was bunched into the first five. The trick is if you see one, you have to see them all-all of the series' half dozen crises are mentioned and in tensified in every episode...
...impassable, and with the help of Government funds, has rehoused a population that, taken together, would make the 28th largest city in the U.S. Chicago has 27 redevelopment and four conservation projects that in five years will have transformed 514 city blocks; even Los Angeles, a laggard among the U.S.'s major cities, has 17 projects on 917 acres under way. St. Louis has miles of riverfront teeming with bulldozers and unfinished dreams; San Francisco is ripping and riveting at the rate of about $1,000 a minute; Cleveland is trying to turn itself completely around to re-embrace...
...small liberal arts colleges such as Reed, Swarthmore, Antioch, and Oberlin. Riesman notes that a far larger proportion of their graduates become academicians than do Harvard graduates. The orientation of Harvard seniors to academic careers is symptomatic of a national cultural change in which Harvard has been rather laggard...
...previous two years. After G.M. and Jersey Standard came Ford with $8.7 billion, General Electric $4.9 billion, Socony Mobil $4.4 billion, U.S. Steel $3.6 billion. Chrysler, the only newcomer to the top ten, sped from twelfth place to seventh as sales increased from $2.4 billion to $3.5 billion. The laggard among the leaders was Swift, off from tenth to twelfth on a slight sales decline...