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...recent survey prepared for the Nixon-appointed commission on population seems to offer reasonably reliable figures. Of 4,611 unmarried black and white girls living at home or in dormitories in 1971, more than 46% had lost their virginity by age 20, according to Johns Hopkins Demographers Melvin Zelnik and John Kantner (TIME, May 22). Comparison with previous generations is difficult because earlier studies are incomplete; Alfred Kinsey, for example, author of the first large-scale studies of sexual behavior, did not include blacks in his statistics. However, Kinsey's 1953 survey of some 5,600 white women disclosed that...
Skeptical. Secretary of State William Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird have been carrying the colors to Capitol Hill, where the White House hopes to get an increasingly skeptical Congress to approve the agreements by handsome margins.* Lately, Nixon himself has taken an active role in the lobbying. The President, who last met with newsmen way back in March, called two White House press conferences in the past two weeks. There was no doubt about what was on his mind. Nixon defended the Moscow accords as a "breakthrough." He insisted that he would not have signed them if he were...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said Thursday that Sen. George McGovern's proposal to slash defense spending by $30 billion "would signal to the world a drastic decline in America's will and ability to contribute to international stability...
...Married. Melvin Belli, 64, flamboyant "King of Torts" with a knack for courtroom theatrics and attracting headlines; and Lia Triff, 23, University of Maryland coed; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Sonora, Calif...
...guilty one off," he likes to say, "he is sufficiently punished when he pays me." After a rich old man named Jacques Mossier was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in 1964 in Key Biscayne, Fla., his blonde wife Candace, 44, and her nephew and boy friend, Melvin Lane Powers, 22, were prime suspects, so they hired Foreman. If Candy and Melvin "got off without a day of pen time," says Foreman, she agreed to pay him $250,000, plus the appraised value of four parcels of Houston property she owned-a total of $1,478,325. Payments lagged...