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...does, there is a 20.2% probability that he will eventually be divorced. These are only a few of the statistics published last week in a new 92-page volume called Social and Economic Variations in Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage. Issued by the Bureau of the Census and based on a 1967 survey of 28,000 households scattered across the nation, the massive array of figures charts the probable course of marriage in revealing detail...
Nine Cambridge residents--four of them Harvard faculty--have appealed to the U.S. Census Bureau and invoked the 1965 Federal Voting Rights Act in order to force the city to let students register at its polls...
...letter to Census Director George H. Brown the nine residents document "a prima facie case for (voter) discrimination in Cambridge" and ask "a finding of fact" as to the percentage of those eligible who actually voted for President here in 1968. If this figure falls under 50 per cent--by authority of the 1965 Act of Congress as amended last year--special Federal registrars would intercede to make sure of fully constitutional suffrage...
...where record keeping remains an underdeveloped art. In particular, there is the projected growth of China, which is often said to have 800 million people and to be increasing by 1,000,000 every month. The fact is, nobody really knows how many Chinese there are (the last announced census recorded 583 million back in 1953) or what the rate of increase is today. In recent years, Peking has encouraged late marriages, use of birth-control pills, sterilization and abortion. "Projections of future populations are admittedly fictions," says one of the more moderate prophets, Philip Hauser of the University...
...four or more children) has dropped from 40% in 1967 to only 23% today. As liberated women seek careers outside the home, and as contraception becomes accepted as an obligation, it is probable that both the ideal family size and the actual birth rate will continue to decline. The Census Bureau has already lowered its estimates for the year 2000 by a minimum...