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...province last year. According to Hill, everybody concerned is happy-the natural parents (in illegitimacy cases), the foster parents and the children. Dr. Whitton called Alberta's adoption system "unhappily casual." In particular she struck at Uncle Charlie's "export traffic in Alberta babies," reported that ten percent of all adopted Alberta babies last year went to U.S. applicants, many of whom arranged the whole thing by mail. Dr. Whitton suspected that some babies had "again changed hands . . . and for a consideration" in the U.S. adoption black market...
...world's most thoroughly Christianized spot, believe it or not, is probably the Fiji Islands. Said Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Pitney Van Dusen last week: "Ninetynine percent of the Fijis' ex-cannibals have become Christians-and they are free from the influence of movies, radio, liquor and prostitution. I don't believe any other country today could show the same proportion of professing Christians...
Fradd said that normally after the six-week period of compulsory calisthenics or physical activity, 85 percent of the men who failed originally pass the five-minute, up-and-down stepping grind. He is interested in making a comparison of the usual results of the summer's six-week period where the men could choose any athletic medium they desired...
Since the war, costs for producing an Album or a Red Book have risen about 85 percent, and the '46 Album, first under postwar prices, had $3600, or 85 percent of all advertising, through the purveyor system. Raising the price above the present $10 would decrease subscribers, while the University says it is doing the books a favor by not subsidizing. Though the Crimson and Lampoon are self-perpetuating organizations with policy that must be free of control by its very nature, an Album starts afresh every year, and the word "control" has no meaning for a collection of pictures...
...Council investigation indicated that the 1950 Red Book, the first to attempt operation without the purveyor list as basis for advertising solicitation, was already $500 in debt, and that the 1946 Album depended for about 85 percent of its advertising on those concerns selling to the University. These two books, the Council said, were the only publications considered in the investigation, since they alone have operated wholly under the post-war price structure...