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Freedom House, a nonpartisan political-education organization based in Manhattan, last week issued a year-end summary of the political state of the world's 3.3 billion people. As measured by the health of their courts, press and other institutions, 1,029,910,000 people are "free" (in the Western states, India and Japan, among others), while another 720,630,000 are "partly free" (among them: the South Vietnamese). But fully 1,583,551,000 people-nearly one-half the world's population-"suffer severe political and civil deprivations." The year's big loser was Africa, which...
...Protestant denominations, according to current conventional wisdom, are steadily losing membership. But the truth of the matter depends on the denomination. Year-end statistics show yet another notable decline in the membership of the mainstream United Methodist Church, but a remarkable gain for the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention. The United Methodists reported a drop of 175,000 during the past year, bringing their membership total down to 10,335,000. Methodist Church schools dropped more startlingly, losing 255,000 enrollees. The Southern Baptists prospered all across the board. Preliminary membership projections for 1972 indicate that the denomination passed...
...about as unlikely a launching as any magazine ever had. Its first "issue" was a 44-page supplement in New York magazine's year-end edition last December. Ms. had a glamorous and talented editor in Gloria Steinem, but minimal financing. It did not put out its first regular monthly issue until July. But last week Ms. was the talk of the trade. Its December circulation reached 395,000. Ms. has 160,000 subscribers (at $9 a year) and sells 235,000 copies (at $1) on newsstands around the country; the January print order has been raised...
QUOTED countless times through the years, the prospectus-written by Henry R. Luce in 1936-still best expresses the beat of LIFE. That beat will be stilled with the year-end special issue of Dec. 29. But its contribution to the history of journalism remains...
...Fairview Country Club-have sold out to developers, either to reopen at a less costly location or to distribute the profits to members and close altogether. Most clubs have elected to pass on the costs of higher taxes to members in the form of stiffer dues and sometimes year-end assessments. Quite a few companies gave up the practice of paying club dues for their executives during the recession and still have not loosened up on that policy...