Soviet survey cites rising premarital sex and illegitimate births
A Nash Sovremennik analysis documents increasing sexual promiscuity in the Soviet Union, with more than half of Leningrad men and about two thirds of women under 21 having premarital sex. It notes many couples live together, unreported separations, rising divorces, and 400,000 illegitimate births yearly.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Nash Sovremennik
Our Contemporary
Theviet Union
Leningrad
Perm
Urals
Has chivalry Gone with the Wind in the South
Southern critics spar over chivalry as Florence King asserts men still kiss well but abandon pedestal ideals. Lawmakers Rep. Lafitte and Rep. Theodore defend or refute the claim while others note a shift to topless roller derby and arm wrestling. A psychiatrist calls generalizations unfounded. Silky Sullivan suggests chivalry isn’t dead, just Gone with the Wind.
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Atlanta
UPI
Deep South
Scarlett O
Scarlett O’hara
Miss King
Rod Steiger
John Lafitte
Columbia
S.C
South
Nick Theodore
Greenville
Kids bake 175 pound record cookie in Lexington
A ninth grade class at Jonas Clark Junior High Lexington Massachusetts and fifth graders formed by Ruth Wakefield produced a 175 pound chocolate chip cookie. It filled an eight foot pan and baked in 48 minutes in a 9 by 42 foot oven at Green Freedman’s Bakery with a mix of brown and white sugar, shortening, eggs, water, flour, rum, vanilla, baking soda, chocolate chips and nuts.
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Boston
UPI
Jonas Clark Junior High
Lexington
Mass
Toll House
Green-Freedman’s Bakery
Ruth Wakefield
Duxbury
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Mr. Coffee
Long Beach
Salta Ana
Pomona
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Bed & Bath
Newport
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