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...Three Decatur, Ill. doctors kept tab on 1,000 consecutive house calls, last week reported their principal conclusion in the A.M.A. Journal: one-fourth of the calls were unnecessary; the patients could just as well have come to the office. On strictly medical grounds, almost two-thirds of the home visits might have been classified as needless, the doctors added, but they took account of "other circumstances": a mother tied down with children and no babysitter; patients who needed emotional reassurance. Two-thirds of all home calls were to treat women...
WEST Germany had new evidence of economic recovery (see FOREIGN NEWS). Friedrich Krupp & Co., and Demag, a big machinery maker, got the order to build a $150 million steel mill in India that will produce one-fourth of India's total steel output. The North German Lloyd line late this year will launch the first of six 10,000-ton passenger and cargo ships to go into service between Germany and the Far East, and Germany's C. C. Deilmann has won the exclusive rights to explore and drill for oil in Yemen...
...went in for petting jumped to 91% among those born in the first decade of the century, and to 99% among their kid sisters and their daughters. The proportion of those who would carry petting, as Kinsey puts it. "to the point of orgasm'' rose from one-fourth to more than half...
Among the 2,480 married women in his sample, one-fourth eventually had relations outside marriage by age 40. The rate rose from 6% in the late teens and 9% in the 203, to 26% in the 303 and early 403. Women with different family and social backgrounds behave about the same, but the infidelity rate goes up with education: 31% among those who have been to college, against 24% of high-school graduates...
...most the activity is more continuous than for women.) Homosexual relationships are far less frequent among women than among men. The activity is virtually confined to unmarried women or those no longer married; a fifth of all Kinsey's subjects had had some such experience by age 40; one-fourth of the unmarried, only 3% while married. (Among unmarried men, half; of the married...