4/84U.S. personnel in Central America: 20,212

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    Cuban personnel in Central America: 4,500

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4/84Percentage of Americans who don’t know which side the U.S. supports in Nicaragua: 87

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4/84Government estimate of the dollar value of the untaxed underground economy: $222,000,000,000

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4/84Percentage of college freshmen who say “being well-off financially” is important: 69.3

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    Who say “developing a philosophy of life” is important: 44.1

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4/84Frames bowled in U.S. ten-pin alleys in 1983: 16,160,538,000

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4/84Americans who say they have quit smoking: 33,000,000

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    Americans who say they haven’t: 53,000,000

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4/84Industry estimate of the life span of the average umbrella (in years): 2.5

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4/84Years a Zimbabwean can be imprisoned for ridiculing President Canaan Banana: 5

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4/84Copies of 1984 sold each day in January 1984 (U.S. only): 50,000

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4/84Portion of the world population living under military-controlled governments: 1/4

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4/84Portion of the Salvadoran population that has emigrated since 1979: 1/8

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4/84Number of suggestions Toyota employees made to management in 1983: 1,900,000

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4/84Number of Japanese cars imported into the U.S. in 1983: 1,972,709

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    Vice versa: 2,322

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4/84Private enterprises licensed in China: 2,630,000

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4/84Square miles of telephone-booth glass smashed by vandals in Riga, U.S.S.R. (1982): 1,800

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4/84Total memory capacity produced by the U.S. computer industry in 1983 (in “K”): 311,800,000,000

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4/84Number of heads of government in the United States since 1964: 5

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    In the Soviet Union: 4

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    In Switzerland: 20

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4/84Countries that have switched sides in the cold war: 28

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4/84Number of troops in the armed forces of Iceland: 0

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4/84Deaths caused by terrorism, worldwide, in 1979: 1,963

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    In 1983: 10,159

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4/84Deaths by gunshot in the movie Scarface: 41

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    By strangulation or hanging: 3

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    By chain saw: 1

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4/84Boxer-shorts-for-women sold by Calvin Klein in the last quarter of 1983: 70,000

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4/84Total baseball at-bats last season: 143,538

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    Home runs: 3,301

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4/84Percentage of viewers who remember seeing Wheaties in Rocky III: 96

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4/84Forgeries discovered this year in the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art: 45

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4/84Americans who declared $200,000 or more in income and paid no federal taxes in 1981: 304

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4/84Percentage of Americans too young to remember the Bicentennial: 25

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    The launching of Sputnik: 58

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    Life before television: 69

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    Life without a federal income tax: 98

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