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...authors of a proposed book on the '60s will conduct a census in downtown Boston on Oct. 19 to find out what people think happened during that decade...
...harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn't know, but it is quite possible that the will to live is stronger in the fall. Conversely, the will to mayhem weakens: nobody has ever worried about a Long...
...With rare exceptions, he was a he who brought home the bacon, the caviar or the grits. His income, his education, the number of his progeny, his occupation were pondered by sociologists, planners, politicians and merchants. No matter how henpecked, he was undeniably the head of household in the Census Bureau statistics...
...more. In recent years, census takers have rung doorbells and had their own bells rung by what they found inside. In 1% of the households, male and female partners are not married. Even when they are, very often both work. Sometimes she earns more than he. So who is the family head? Ask and you sometimes hear "he," sometimes "she," but most often "neither...
...Census Bureau knows when it is whipped. In 1980, head of household will disappear from Census forms...