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...same decade, the Afro-Asian group's births soared from 32% to 60%. The non-Jewish population is now growing fastest of all, with a fantastic rate of increase of 40 per 1,000 (v. a world average of 18). Arabs and Druzes, who represent only one-tenth of Israel's 2,200,000 people, produced one-fifth of all babies born there last year...
...visitor said, "typically Mahler-esque"-which seemed a self-evident remark after listening to Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony...
...schools need more individual pace-setting to unleash the gifted: about 30% of ninth-graders scored higher on general information tests than average twelfth-graders. > Reviewing is an overlooked art: tenth-and eleventh-grade girls knew less about science than girls in ninth grade...
...dozen electrical-equipment manufacturers on the list increased their earnings 10% on sales that went up more than 15%. A star performer: Germany's SIEMENS, which advanced from tenth place to eighth among the elite...
...Juan last week to help Puerto Rico celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Commonwealth status with the U.S., Vice President Lyndon Johnson handed Governor Luis Muñoz Marín a letter from President Kennedy. "I agree," wrote Kennedy, "that this is a proper time to consult the people of Puerto Rico so that they may express any other preference, including independence, if that should be their wish." In quick response, Muñoz called a plebiscite among the island's 2,350,000 inhabitants, which will probably be held late this year or early next, to determine...