In recording his joys and sorrows, his struggle for existence, his encounters, good and evil, man has used words, music, paint, stone, steel, film. The U.S. Bureau of the Census uses numbers. Last week it issued its 75th Anniversary edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a volume which embraces the raw material of American drama. Some ore from this 1,056-page mine:
THE 3,909,000 Americans who are born each year-have a life expectancy of 68.4 years (17 years more than they would have had 40 years ago). Births in hospitals are the...
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