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...official illegitimacy rate in the U.S. since 1940.* At the same time, the Depression-born ranks of people aged 25 to 35, who most commonly want to adopt children, are proportionately slender now. There are still many more young couples wanting children than there are available infants. But the ratio, once 10 to 1, is now down to 5 to 1 in small towns, 3 to 1 in New York and other Eastern cities. In California and Flor ida, where many unmarried pregnant women go to have their babies-presumably to combine a vacation with a secret confinement-there...
...Finally it stops--just short of engulfing the audience. A Cinerama screen is breathtaking: the height of the one in Boston in 25 feet and the width (stated as a chord drawn from one end of the curved screen to the other) is 64 feet. The height to width ratio of the projected image is 1 to 2.85, and that they (quite rightly) call Super Panavision...
...year. Conservative predictions of 1966 crime statistics foresee 9,000 murders, 5,000 rapes, 7,000 armed robberies, 20,000 thefts and 25,000 cases of assault. This, in a country with a population of 33.5 million, works out to one murder per 3,720 people; in Japan, the ratio is one murder per 44,190. Legally, Filipinos own more firearms (at least 300,000) than the entire military and police forces. Illegally, they pack 300,000 "loose" or unlicensed weapons, ranging from zip guns to submachine guns and antiaircraft cannon. The situation, says the Manila New Evening News...
...Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury was corning to the banks for billions more to finance the budget deficit. Under longstanding moral and legal commitments that they could not ignore, the banks were also shelling out corporate loans faster than they were taking in deposits. In New York City banks, the ratio of loans climbed to well over 70% of deposits, a 45-year peak...
...spends at least $4 billion annually to provide new services and improve technology, has always raised the bulk of its money through sale of stock, got less than 35% of it from the long-term money market v. 50% for other utilities. A.T. & T. is gradually raising its debt ratio, is being goaded to borrow even more by critics who point out that the interest on debts would be less expensive than dividends paid to stockholders. The FCC, in upholding the 8% rate of return that A.T. & T. insists on, could conceivably, for the first time, demand a voice...