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Peak to Come. The cancer time bomb will continue to supply grim data. Because many ailing victims procrastinate in seeking medical help, commission physicians and statisticians have had to rely on death records to supply the full cancer census. Though the actual number of cancers detected so far in the high-risk group is only 19, the team points out that these occurred in a sampling of only 1,109 people, the oldest of whom is now just 35. Among Japanese of the same age who arrived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the bombings, cancer has occurred at less than...
Since 1790, when the nation's population concentrated statistically at a spot near Baltimore, the American center of gravity has tipped ever westward. Census results show it moving across the map like flowing lava: in 1870 east of Cincinnati, in 1900 near Indianapolis, in 1940 on the Indiana-Illinois line. Today, the computers calculate, the population center lies at lat. 38° 27 min. 47 sec. N., and long. 89° 42 min. 22 sec. W. That puts it in the middle of one of Farmer Lawrence Friederich's fields outside of Mascoutah, Ill., just southeast...
...Civil War, more people moved into the 16 states of the South and the District of Columbia from 1960 to 1970 than migrated to other parts of the country. The population drain in which 3.5 million residents fled the region between 1940 and 1950 was reversed in the last census. In a recent survey six of the ten states with the largest growth rate in new manufacturing plants were states of the Old Confederacy. The agrarian economy of King Cotton has been top pled by agribusiness. Sharecroppers have been replaced by machinery; new cash crops and livestock?peanuts, soy beans...
Recycled Reforms. Even so, Hess & Co. had good reason to support their choice of delegates. They said they carefully used census reports to reflect the U.S. youth population. Example: 20% of the young delegates were college students, slightly overrepresenting the 16% of young Americans who are in fact collegians. Blacks (12% of the youth population) accounted for 16% of the delegates. Others included working youths (27%) and young housewives...
...billion in property taxes, up from $22.6 billion in 1965. But the property-tax system is a mess. Most fiscal experts agree that it is disgracefully administered and unfair to millions of individual taxpayers. Despite the legal requirement that property of equal value must be taxed alike, a Census Bureau study found that the typical homeowner can expect a tax bill that is 20% more-or less-than it ought to be. Some big, rich property owners pay little or nothing...