Word: maleness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of applicants to the GSAS also declined from 4450 last year to 4000 this year, Kraus said. Male applicants outnumbered females two-to-one, Kraus said, but added that the number of women applicants has been rising steadily for the past few years...
That's the word from a Florida chemist, who has found what he calls a sharp decline in male fertility...
E.D.T.) Laverne herself (Penny Marshall, that is) directed the first episode of this male Laverne & Shirley ripoff. It stars Jim Belushi (John's brother) and Michael Keaton as janitors who go to work for their uncle in a Chicago office building. Both actors appeared in quick flops last season (Who's Watching the Kids?, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour), but Working Stiffs could be their fastest cancellation yet. There are only so many jokes to be made about moving furniture, and none of them is funny...
Today's bank robber usually is a male in his 20s who is unemployed and often has a drug problem. He tends to be a note passer who acts on the spur of the moment, then takes the money and runs. One Minneapolis robber collapsed on the street after sprinting from the bank with his take. Last week a laid-back San Francisco bandit robbed from one teller, then moved on to the new accounts desk, where he was arrested after trying to open a savings account. In Savannah, Ga., a robber was soon caught because the note...
Probing the social lives of 35 male and 36 female freshmen at the upstate New York school, Social Psychologists Harry Reis and Ladd Wheeler of Rochester and John Nezlek of William and Mary found that physical attractiveness is a great advantage to men, but not to women. The beautiful and the plain spend about the same amount of time with men and report the same amount of satisfaction. The women who do best are those with average to good looks. Says Wheeler: "These borderline women seem very satisfied in their relationships with the opposite...