Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was a predictable surge after servicemen returned from overseas. But how to account for the drop during the prosperous 1920s and the affluent late '50s and '60s? The lowering birth rate has nothing to do with fertility, says Natality Statistics Chief Arthur A. Campbell; in fact, women are proving more fertile than the mothers of 30 years ago (88 babies for each 1,000 women of childbearing age v. 76 a generation ago). Nor did he hold the Pill solely responsible; the drop in births during the '20s, before today's sophisticated contraceptives were available...
Today's pattern, according to Campbell, is for women to have children earlier and settle for fewer of them (average U.S. family is now 2.7 children). Says Robert C. Cook, president of Washington's Population Reference Bureau: "There is a growing realization on the part of younger couples in America that rearing children in this complicated and expensive world presents big problems." Among those cited by Cook: "Rising costs of living, increasing competition for education, especially at the college level...
...kaleidoscopic colors of an oriental bazaar swirled through London's normally drab Heathrow Airport. Clutching bundles bulging with everything from jars of curry powder to television sets, turbaned men, sari-clad women and coffee-tinted youngsters stepped off planes from such diverse points as Cairo, Dar-es-Salaam and Athens. Most of their journeys began in Kenya, where they had sold their businesses at panic prices, paid scalpers' ransom rates for airline tickets and grabbed planes to any place that offered hope of a connecting flight to Britain. Thus last week, in a final, frantic stampede...
...opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush, Oh Men! Oh Women!) but almost none of the usual Hollywood hurrah. Her road to fame in Peyton Place: a man-weary divorcee trying to bring up teen-aged daughter Tippy Walker...
...Warmth plan to find sleeping places in College rooms for visitors has worked well for men guests, Somit said, but the response from Radcliffe has been so small that the organization has been forced to permit women to sleep at Warmth headquarters...