8/85Percentage of Americans who say there should be a law against interracial marriage: 27

National Opinion Research Council (Chicago)

    Who say that blacks should not “push themselves where they are not wanted”: 58

National Opinion Research Council (Chicago)

8/85Percentage of families in New York City with annual incomes over $50,000 that are black: 7

U.S. Census Bureau

    Of families in Chicago: 20

U.S. Census Bureau

8/85Number of the ten most popular TV shows among families earning more than $30,000 that are on NBC: 5

National Broadcasting Company

8/85Legal fees paid by CBS to outside counsel in 1984: $10,400,000

Columbia Broadcasting System

8/85Net profit of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1984: $10,620,000

Turner Broadcasting System

8/85Rank of the grapevine among employees’ leading sources of information about their company: 1

Hay Group (Philadelphia)

8/85Percentage of female executives who say that wearing perfume helps a woman’s career: 36

Erdos & Morgan (New York City)

8/85Percentage of Broadway tickets that are bought by companies and deducted as a business expense: 20

League of American Theaters and Producers (New York City)

    Of tickets for National Hockey League games played in the United States: 62

National Hockey League (New York City)

8/85Rank of vehicles, tape recorders, and office equipment among Japan’s leading exports to the United States: 1,2,3

Japanese Ministry of Trade

    Rank of corn, soybeans, and coal among the United States’ leading exports to Japan: 1,2,3

Japanese Ministry of Trade

8/85Percentage increase in the gross national product of China in 1984: 12

World Bank (Washington, D.C.)

8/85Value of the art and antiques exported from England in 1984: £615,000,000

Department of Trade and Industry (London)

8/85Number of butler schools in the United States: 1

Ivor Spencer School for British Butlers and Administrators (London)

    Of nanny schools: 11

American Council of Nanny Schools (Midland, Mich.)

8/85Percentage of fathers who were in the delivery room when their children were born in 1973: 27

Levi Strauss & Company (San Francisco)

    In 1983: 79

Levi Strauss & Company (San Francisco)

8/85Percentage of American women who receive no prenatal care during the first three months of pregnancy: 24

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

8/85Amount the government will pay Ed Meese to cover legal expenses incurred in his Ethics Act inquiry: $472,190

Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin (Washington, D.C.)

    Federal funds allocated for legal aid to the poor in Delaware in 1985: $533,510

Legal Services Corporation (Washington, D.C.)

8/85Percentage of capital spending by U.S. companies that went for worker health and safety items in 1978: 2.9

McGraw-Hill (New York City)

    In 1984: 1.7

McGraw-Hill (New York City)

8/85Average penalty levied by OSHA for a “serious” violation of safety regulations in 1984: $187

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

8/85Number of hearings the Senate health committee has held on AIDS: 0

Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee

8/85Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings who are living in the United States: 750

Japanese American Citizens League (San Francisco)

8/85Pounds of plutonium and highly enriched uranium that are missing from U.S. inventories: 9,600

Nuclear Control Institute (Washington, D.C.)

    Pounds of plutonium needed to make an atomic bomb: 15

Nuclear Control Institute (Washington, D.C.)

8/85Chances that one of the 120 operating U.S. nuclear reactors will melt down in the next 20 years: 45 in 100

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

8/85Percentage of Americans who say the “bad effects” of nuclear energy outweigh the good: 38

Roper Organization (New York City)

    Who say the “bad effects” of credit cards outweigh the good: 46

Roper Organization (New York City)

8/85Percentage increase in waterbed sales in 1984: 30

Waterbed Manufacturers Association (Los Angeles)

8/85Percentage of American adults who can’t swim: 47

American Red Cross (Washington, D.C.)

8/85Percentage of Americans who never go to the movies: 39

Motion Picture Association of America (New York City)

8/85Acres of land purchased for national parks by the Reagan Administration: 57,169

U.S. Department of the Interior

    By the Carter Administration: 419,492

U.S. Department of the Interior

8/85Percentage of American adults who have visited Yellowstone National Park: 30

R.H. Bruskin (New Brunswick, N.J.)

8/85Cost of a week at Solair Nudist Park in Massachusetts for a family of four: $230.25

Solair (Southbridge, Mass.)

8/85Cab fare from New York City to Los Angeles: $5,550

Nester’s Official New York Taxi Driver’s Guide (Nester’s Map and Guide Company, New York City)