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October 15, 1973
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a reporter at large
I-WHO, WHAT, WHERE, HOW MUCH, HOW MANY?
E. J. Kahn
REPORTER AT LARGE about the 1970 census--its statistics and significance. There were 203 million Americans alive in 1970--almost twice as many as in 1920. …