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...spite of all this, the number of illegitimate children born to teen-age mothers rose from 8.4 per thousand in 1940 to 16 in 1961, in the 20-to-25 age group from 11.2 per thousand to 41.2. Some girls neglect to use contraceptives, psychologists report, because they consciously or unconsciously want a child, others resent the planned, deliberate aspect; they think it "nicer" to get carried away on the spur of the moment. College girls have been known to take up collections for a classmate who needed an abortion, and some have had one without skipping a class...
...Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...
...death, she quickly brought the creature over to Hickory Hill, where the horse died anyway. She complained to the Animal Rescue League, and last week Neighbor Nicholas Zemo went on trial. Hearing Ethel's testimony, the judge said, "This is one of the clearest cases of cruelty by neglect I've ever seen," and fined Nasty Neighbor Nick...
...charge business and union with neglect in meeting their responsibilities in giving the consumer what he is led to believe he has paid for. Whether I pay $2.50 for a toy, $25 for wearing apparel, $2,500 for a car, $25,000 for a home, or $25 million for a Mercury shot, the product too often contains the same careless construction and careful avoidance of detail, quality and followup. There is more than quality of workmanship lacking-there is pride of workmanship...
...raters. Higher education has become a major British political issue. The Conservative gov ernment is about to produce a report, three years in the making, that is expected to recommend even further expansion, and the Labor Party cries that "Britain's economic stagnation is a direct result of neglect of higher education" (see THE WORLD...