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...Atlanta census taker climbed to the top of a flagpole to count Flagpole Sitter Odell Smith, and in California one hard-working enumerator discovered a murder victim...
Head of the House. Last week, the census takers, outfitted with cardboard satchels loaded (14 lbs.) with forms and pencils, were running into the same human problems behind the statistics. A Boston man caught up with his census taker to say that he had understated his annual income by $750; he did not want his wife to know about his extra pocket money. In Dellview, N.C., a census taker found that the town's population had decreased by three; the 1960 count: four. At Detroit's Statler Hilton Hotel, the census taker discovered that the reason that many...
...census taker quickly printed his spiel on cards.) And probably the easiest count took place at the White House, where the head of the household informed the census taker that the place was regularly occupied (not owned or rented) by himself, his wife and her maid (all white), and that the house has running water, a flush toilet, and 132 rooms...
After a year and a half of dipping into his TV loot, Teddy had taken a look at his thinning bankroll and decided he needed a job. He asked to become a census taker. On the standard exam, he did well on the language sections, but Teddy was a flop when it came to map reading, i.e., showing that he could stay within his assigned area, spot landmarks, figure the distance to the city limits, etc. The Census Bureau decided that there was no sense in hiring a man who might get lost before he got out of town. "This...
Strictly Continental. On Sydney buses and Brisbane trams, German and Italian accents now mingle with the cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread...