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Beginning in 1965 the Harvard and Radcliffe yearbooks will be combined in one publication, Harvard Yearbook Publications, Inc., announced yesterday...
...numbers, the churches are holding their own in the U.S. According to the newly published Yearbook of American Churches for 1964, the increase in church membership since the 1963 Yearbook was 1.6%, equaling the rate of national population growth. The report says that 117,946,002 Americans claim an affiliation with some religious organization; this figure represents 63.4% of the population, just .2% less than the record...
...Yearbook statistics, which are compiled by the mostly Protestant National Council of Churches, show that Roman Catholicism continues to make the greatest gains. The U.S. now has 43,847,938 Catholics, an increase of 2.3%. The largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention (10,191,303), which took the lead for the first time since the organization of the present Methodist Church (now 10,153,003) in 1939. But in relationship to the total U.S. population, Protestant affiliation declined by .3% since the previous year...
...names of expectant mothers that they can sell to diaper-service companies and baby photographers. The child joins a list in his own right the first time he sends in a cereal box top, makes it again at high-school graduation when his name is gleaned from a yearbook or supplied by a cap-and-gown manufacturer. From then on, every time he registers his car, makes the telephone directory, buys a home, rents an apartment, joins a book club, contributes to a charity, shops by mail or takes out a credit card, his name is apt to be noted...
Kennedy graduated from Harvard in June, 1940--very much pleased with his senior year's work. In the Yearbook he listed his intended vocation as law. His Winthrop House room-mate Charles Rousmaniere (now chairman of the Harvard Alumni Fund) says Kennedy told most questioners that he wished to go into journalism. In truth, Kennedy was very much unsure about the future. He did not decide on a career in politics until after the destruction of his PT boat in the Pacific and the death of his brother Joe (who had been two years ahead of him at Harvard...