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Armed with his statistical broadsword, Wallenberg whacks at the Failure and Guilt Complex branch by branch. He demolishes the "explosionists" in the demographic branch with specifics on the falling birth rate that is replacing the population explosion ("if indeed it ever existed") and "may well prove to be the single greatest agent of an ever increasing, ever wealthier middle class in America." For the benefit of the F & G C's sociology faculty, Wallenberg marshals facts to support his thesis that "American workers are engaged in more interesting, more skilled and more productive work than any other workers...
Test Miles. Automakers contend that test data are still insufficient to prove the safety and reliability of air bags. Transportation Department experts disagree. They contend that hundreds of accidents involving air-bag-equipped autos have conclusively shown that bags protect drivers from serious injury even in high-speed crashes. They also claim that tests have banished two early fears about the bags: that they would inflate accidentally when there was no collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have...
...earned $78,637, v. a loss of $182,297 for the same period last year, which was its first complete quarter in operation. In the deficit-ridden world of Northeastern railroading, that performance has been enough to attract the favorable attention of state governments. All of which goes to prove, perhaps, that rail unions are not always obstructionist, and that private management has a future even in Northeastern railroading. The sort of naive triumph enjoyed by the Little Blue Engine when it rescued the happy train sometimes approaches reality...
Evers does not even accept his meager $75-a-month salary as mayor of impoverished Fayette, but he owns a restaurant, liquor store and motel in town. The indictment "should prove all niggers aren't on welfare," said Evers last week, after proclaiming his innocence. He added that he had repeatedly told the Internal Revenue Service that he would pay whatever they said he owed, "but they told me very frankly, 'No, we want you.' " That was a distortion, said an IRS official: "We just told him that we weren't there to collect money, that...
Under Pressure. An attempt to analyze the upsurge in popularity of the one television form for which no one but a network vice president has a kind word would defy the best minds in sociology. However, man's need to prove himself superior to his peers probably has something to do with it. Any bright preadolescent can answer most of the questions-High Rollers recently required a contestant to give the location of the Boston Tea Party-in the privacy of home, away from the pressure of the studio. The fantasy that one could do well up there...