European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday August 16,1988 baby Boom Echo reflected in study Washington a americans had More babies in 1987 than in an year in nearly a Quarter Century but at the same time the nation recorded More deaths than any year in history. Last year also saw the lowest marriage and divorce rates in Over a decade according to figures compiled by the government s National Center for health slight increase in Fertility coupled with the huge number of women in their prime childbearing years resulted in a estimated 3,829,000 new arrivals last year the most since 1964, the Center re ported monday in its preliminary Statis tical summery for 1987. Millions of people born in the Post world War ii baby Boom Are now in their 20s and 30s and after completing school and launching careers have begun has led to a Sharp increase in the total number of births in recent years although the nation s rate of 66.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 remain sat about half that of the late 1950s, when the baby Boom was at its Peak. Because the recent jump in births is result of the children of baby Boomers producing their own offspring social scientists have begun referring to the event As an Echo of the baby Boom. The number of women in their childbearing years is expected to continue growing by about 1 per cent annually for the next few years according to census Bureau estimates. The births in 1987 were up from3,7 31,000 a year earlier. Deaths in 1987 totalled 2,127,000, up from 2,099,000 a year earlier and the most Ever recorded for a single year in the United states. Record numbers of deaths have be come common in recent years with the nation s population growing and including an Ever larger share of elderly people. The National death rate of 8.7 per1,000 people in 1987 was unchanged from a year earlier the report said. Life expectancy at birth was also unchanged at 74.9 report disclosed Small increases in life expectancy last year for White Menand Black women and Small declines for White women and Black men. Harry Rosenberg of the Center s mortality Branch said statisticians won t Beable to determine a reason for those changes until they have More time to study the detailed figures. The changes were Small and finding the reasons for them could take As Long As a year Rosenberg said. Among causes of death heart disease declined somewhat last year As it has forthe last several years the report said. There was also a decline in the rate for accidents other than those involving motor rates for other major causes of death did not show statistically significant , the report for 1987 did in clude figures for aids for the first time estimating Between 12,450 and 13,820deaths during the year from the disease. That would place aids 15th among the causes of death for americans although the disease has not been officially included in the numerical rankings. The nation s marriage rate for 1987 was 9.9 weddings per 1,000 people the lowest since 1977, when it was also 9.9. The marriage rate has been relatively Low in recent years a situation experts attribute to the Many Young people Pur suing education and careers and Choos ing to live together out of Wedlock an delaying starting families. The All time Low marriage rate was 7.9 in the de pression year of 1932 the High was 16.4 m 1946, after servicemen returned from world War was also Low last year at a rate of 4.8 per 1,000 people the lowest since 1975. It peaked at 5.3 in 1979 and in 1981. Stubbornly carrying on a mule taught to take High dives into a called in to Rule on complaints by animal vat of water demonstrates his act before a activists who said the dives were cruel committee of Virginia officials at the and ought to be banned. The panel s de Prince William county fair. They were vision on with the show. Toledo chief drops Black from police order Toledo Ohio a the police chief monday dropped the word Black from a directive ordering officers to Stop and question Black teen agers at random to reduce crime in a racially mixed neighbourhood. Chief Martin Felker said in statement that the policy which is under attack by a Black lawyers association i Federal court unfortunately. Has been perceived As racially to Correct this misconception i have modified this directive he said. La Fayette Tolliver of the Thurgood mar shall Law association said the group will press ahead with its suit to prevent police from carrying out the policy announced july 8. The policy applies to the old West end neighbourhood. A 4 30 . Hearing was scheduled in . District court on the group s re quest for a temporary restraining order and $1 million in damages the attorney said. The association sued on Friday on be half of Walter Wade jr., a Black teen Ager who was followed and then stopped by police in front of his House wednes Day. Wade 19, was questioned but he was not charged with any offence the suit said. This policy has Given police carte Blanche to do what they wanted in the oldest end. We Are not Only talking about Black teen agers being stopped but also some Black adults too Tolliver said. The policy followed complaints by residents who had reported three violent incidents involving Black youngsters. About 17 percent of Toledo s 340,000 residents Are Black. The suit said the policy violates civil rights Law and the Constitution s Guaran tee of Freedom of association and Protection against unlawful search and seizure. Felker defended the policy As Nec Essary to Stop violence in the neighbor Hood. Yesterday All the words seem so hard to say Atlanta a you think you know your favorite beatles songs right but can you remember All the lyrics and can you get All the Correct words in the Correct places psychologists want to know. For example in the song Rocky Raccoon what comes after the opening line now somewhere in the Black Mountain Bills of Dakota answer the Sec Ond line is there lived a Young boy named Rocky Raccoon researchers asked 76 Duke University students to recall and write Down All the words to 32 beatles songs. They were Given Only the title and the first Lin of each. The purpose was to gain insight into How the min remembers say researchers David Rubin of Duke and in a Hyman of Emory University in Atlanta. Half the students were assigned one group of 32randomly chosen songs the others were Given a differ ent group of 32 tunes. Researchers Analysed the students performance on the 25 Best remembered songs. Multiplying the num Ber of lines in those songs times the 38 students As signed each song gave a maximum possible score of 16,416 students achieved Only 3,378 with any degree of the interesting thing Hentan said sunday at the annual meeting of the american psychological association is that recall for details of the lines they remembered was remarkably the 3,378 lines students wrote Down they re called 2,371 without error 454 More with Only on error and 227 with Only two errors. And even the flawed lines generally followed the meaning rhythm and poetic features of the original suggesting that people use those characteristics to recall such material Hyman said. For example rhythm and rhyme were preserved i such errors As remembering the phrase and you know you should be glad As and you know you can the sad from the hit she loves you. Only four of 32 students in one group remembered that Rocky Raccoon was carrying a gun to shoot off the legs of his but some guesses were close such As to shoot off the head or hands or shoot out the lights of the Man who stole his words at the end of lines were Well re called but sometimes there was some unintentional editing. One student turned wonder How you manage to feed the rest from lady Madonna into wonder How you manage to be sometimes a flubbed phrase did t even rhyme wit the original. Having read the Book from the song a Day in the life became having read the play Inone student s version. Other errors kept the same sounds within lines Ashen the phrase always know sometimes think it s me from Strawberry Fields forever became Al ways though sometimes think it s
