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When a town dies, there is rarely a eulogy, a farewell or even a tear. Thus it was something of a commendable service when the U.S. Bureau of the Census took note last week of the passing of five tiny incorporated towns in the decade between counts. Lost River, Idaho, the bureau reported, had lost all 58 of its residents; Lakeside, Colo., declined from 28 to none; Westfall, Ore., from eight to none; Ridotto, Iowa, from six to none, and the lone resident of Ironton, Colo., either died or moved away. But towns, the bureau discovered, do not die easily...
...Once the new procedure was instituted, the number of deaths attributed to drugs soared, and during the last six months of 1970, the coroner identified 42 of these deaths as resulting from overdose. This pushed the yearly overdose rate to 84 and sent the addict census climbing...
...current U.N. estimate is 740 million, and most American demographers lean toward 800 million But not even Peking is sure of the size of the population it commands. The last published census, taken in 1953, showed 583 million. Peking now claims 700 million. But when American Journalist Edgar Snow asked Mao Tse-tung about these figures, the Chairman said in disbelief: "How could there be so many...
Through the decade of urban riots, civil rights marches and the Great Society, the material lot of America's blacks improved substantially. Yet, in nearly every category measured in a new report by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, blacks still lag far behind the white population...
These statistics may well be true, and so may most of the Times's figures-but obviously some are truer than others. A census of illiterates in an advanced, well-documented country carries considerably more conviction than a report from the remote corners of Thailand. Nobody is really sure exactly how many people there are in Thailand, after all, much less the distance that one of them can travel in a day, so the margin for error is presumably considerably larger than a precise figure like 17% implies. What makes such numbers imaginary is that most of them...