8/84Weekly rent for a one-bedroom oceanfront house on Martha’s Vineyard, in August: $750-$1,250
Percentage of President Eisenhower’s time that was spent this way: 33
For workers in the Soviet Union: 15
8/84Percentage of Americans who say they have made changes in their lives to “get out of the rat race”: 40
8/84Estimated world military expenditures for 1984: $970,000,000,000
8/84Rank of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman, among all nations, in per-capita military expenditures: 1,2,3
8/84Number of countries thought to possess chemical weapons: 14-16
8/84Value of marijuana, opium, heroin, and hashish smuggled out of Lebanon via Israel last year: $400,000,000
In Los Angeles: 123
8/84Number of South African athletes who have changed their citizenship in order to compete in the 1984 Olympics: 6
8/84Most books on the New York Times best-seller list at one time edited by a single editor (Michael Korda): 7
8/84Number of the six highest-grossing films that were made by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, or both: 6
8/84Percentage of the sexual acts depicted or referred to on prime-time TV that are between married partners: 6
8/84Number of Sunday newspapers in the United States in 1946: 497
About being elected to political office: 6
8/84Percentage of Chicago restaurant managers who say they allow patrons to smoke cigarettes: 84