Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slippery water layer between ice and rock (see diagram). This was the turning point. Held fast to the rock, the ice stopped moving. The ice shelf was nibbled away by the ocean, and the earth could capture more of the sun's heat. The earth's temperature rose again, and the glaciers retreated...
...that the vast majority of American men and at least half the women now have sexual intercourse before marriage. Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr., psychiatrist to the Harvard and Radcliffe Health Service, estimates that within the past 15 years the number of college boys who had intercourse before graduation rose from 50% to 60%, the number of college girls from 25% to 40%. A Purdue sociologist estimates that one out of six .brides is pregnant...
...spite of all this, the number of illegitimate children born to teen-age mothers rose from 8.4 per thousand in 1940 to 16 in 1961, in the 20-to-25 age group from 11.2 per thousand to 41.2. Some girls neglect to use contraceptives, psychologists report, because they consciously or unconsciously want a child, others resent the planned, deliberate aspect; they think it "nicer" to get carried away on the spur of the moment. College girls have been known to take up collections for a classmate who needed an abortion, and some have had one without skipping a class...
Rushed by Air. The cigarette makers' pack of troubles meant opportunity for others. Sales of cigars rose across the U.S., and cigar stocks climbed on the major stock exchanges. Tobacconists everywhere reported an unprecedented surge in the sales of pipes; demand for bejeweled little pipes for ladies multiplied so fast that distributors rushed their shipments by air freight. Among the biggest gainers were the anti-nicotine preparations. Bantron, the largest-selling smoke-curbing drug, could not keep up with demand from its distributors, and neither could Nikoban and Ban-Smoke...
Unexpected Benefit. An authority on rose growing as well as on banking, Jack Hambro intends henceforth to cultivate fields he knows. Hambros now offers package plans for Scandinavia in which the bank handles all arrangements for British investors from plane tickets to plant location. It is also capitalizing on Britain's exclusion from the Common Market. "The failure to go in," says Hambro, "has created lots of problems we can help solve. We always say our advice is free until somebody makes a profit." Once that happens, Hambros is not too princely to hold out its hand...