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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
Most of these drowned cities are unexplored and unaccounted for. No one knows how their ruins got so deep underwater; the general level of the Mediterranean has risen only a fraction of an inch since glacial times. Gargallo hopes that his underwater ruins may hold the answer to some Etruscan mysteries. "Water," he says, "is destructive, but it can also preserve. Mud gives protection from time, weather and greedy hands. If the sea bottom is undisturbed, some relics last almost indefinitely...
...three-months' vacation with pay for each worker every five years. "At current rates." said McDonald, "this would cost the industry no more than 12? an hour per man and would create 25,000 to 35,000 new jobs in basic steel." Employment, McDonald noted, has not risen as fast as production since the recession; consequently, his featherbedding idea would take up some of the slack. McDonald, who threatened a strike July1 if there is no new contract by then, also had words for Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator had proposed that the union peg its wage demands...
Considering national security, Harris claimed that present policy "favors the bankbook over national survival." He explained, "defense spending is still below 1953 levels, while the Soviet's military threat has risen, and in contrast to rapid Soviet economic growth, this country's production has risen an average of only 1 1/2 per cent a year under the Republicans...
Since Parrish started Missiles and Rockets in 1956 industry sales have risen from $1.2 billion a year to an estimated $7 billion. Operating on the Wayne Parrish rule that each $1 billion industry segment deserves its own publication. Bergaust decided that "the business is big enough for us all." This week he will offer a five-day-a-week industry newsletter called Space Business Daily (cost: $125 a year). Later he expects to launch other publications in the field of space-age ground support, electronics and propulsion...