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Despite all the babies born during the 1950s, the U.S. is actually less densely populated today than it was a decade ago. The average population density is 50.4 people per sq. mi. as against 50.7 in 1950. Reason for this paradox, reported last week by the Census Bureau: when sparsely populated Alaska became a state, the U.S. added 2½ sq. mi. of territory for every Alaskan...
...black-skinned or Spanish-speaking migrant child lives in a world so alien to U.S. culture that missionaries enter mi grant camps to harden themselves for Asia and Africa. The child is a full-fledged field hand at nine-often at six. When he invades a new area, crowded schools wink at attendance laws. Falling behind, he quits school by the fourth grade. He is the nation's greatest single source of illiteracy, and by that handicap, condemned to repeat the hopeless life of his parents. He desperately needs education-and a sense of worth...
...Director Clark is always on the look out for more; the earth swarms with mi-crospecimens that he feels could do service by taking a long, standardizing sleep in his refrigerators and liquid nitrogen tanks...
...launching site deep within the Soviet Union. This was 1,000 miles short of the distance record set by the U.S.'s Atlas last May. Alerted two weeks ago by a Radio Moscow broadcast warning the world's shipping to stay clear of the 50,000-sq.-mi. target zone, the U.S. Navy had had airplanes circling the area for days; Navy planes saw the impact, traced the rocket's progress by telemetry and radar...
...Theodore Bikel, 36, sings in 17 tongues, is especially known for Israeli songs-Dodi Li, Mi Barechev, Hechalil-which he delivers in a constricted, almost nasalized voice. An accomplished actor (The Defiant Ones, African Queen), he attacks his material with such zest and humor that he has become one of the most sought-after concert artists in the business...