Nation: Let the Great Head Count Begin

Congressional power and billions in funds are at stake in the 1980 census

Answer the census! We're counting on you!

That slogan will start bombarding Americans this week from sea to shining sea as the great decennial head count begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes,...

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