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Page 16/The BattalionThursday, April 11,1985 Ex-politician taking longway home to Texas Associated Press WASHINGTON — Alan Steel man can truthfully say, with tongue in cheek perhaps, that he has gone farther than any other former Texas congressman. His new home is a far cry from Mesquite, from which he rep resented East Dallas in Congress from 1973 to 1977. But after leaving politics in 1977 and spending a few years in the Washington area, he packed his family up last year and moved to Singapore. “The island is 25 miles by 14 miles but there are 2‘/2 million people on the island, so there is not much room for single-family housing,” Steelman said in a telephone interview from Singapore. “We live in a high-rise.” Steelman, 43, left politics after running unsuccessfully on the Re publican ticket against incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen in 1976. He stayed in the Washington area, renovating a seven-bedroom, 150- year-old house on the Chesapeake Bay, and then joined the Alexander Proud foot Co. about seven years ago as a board member. He later became a full-time employee, working as a productivity consultant for the inter national business consulting firm. Steelman, his wife, Carolyn, and the three youngest of their five chil dren moved to Singapore when he was named managing director of Al exander Proudfoot Co., Far East. For Steelman, who “had never been west of Hawaii,” the transition from back-slapping good of boys in Texas politics to the somewhat ar cane world of Oriental business re quired a re-education. He said he plans to stay in the Far East for another three or four years. America’s age begins to show Associated Press WASHINGTON — The nation's median age has topped 31, with the id the very old be- middle-aged and the very coming the fastest growing segments of society, the Census Bureau re ported Wednesday. The nation’s median age was esti mated at 31.2 years as of last July 1, meaning that hall of all Americans were older than that and half younger. “The median age has increased each year since 1971, when it was 27.9 years,” the bureau said in a study. “This aging trend is expected to continue as the early baby boom generations head toward middle age.” That aging ol the huge post-war baby boom generation, and im provements in medical care extend ing the typical lifetime, have com bined to make the middle-aged and very old the fastest growing seg ments of the population. While the nation’s population grew 4.2 percent between 1980 and 1984, the 35-44 age group increased a huge 19.5 percent. The number of Americans aged 85 and over was close behind with a 19.4 percent in crease. “Both of these age groups will continue to grow for some time,” the bureau said. 1 hose large increases wot( lowed by an 11.5 percent jump; the 75-84 age group and j 10.5 percent among peopleamBi to 34. On the other hand.thenumlie | people aged 14 to 17 fell by 9,h “ id cent and the age 5-13 dropped by 3.2 percent, tliis; Heeled the "baby bust” of iki 1960s and the 1970s, when deb | marriage and increased atteniK f education and careers causedm 80 No. 1311 people to delay childbearing. M I here was an increase in tlrMI dei -5 age group, but the repons mL this reflected larger nrnnben ITf women in the cnildbearint*5 rather than an increase in lenj rates. “ I he black population iscnnsiiB ably voimget than the whitepodT lion,” the study noted, withtkfci ■ chan age of blacks 26.3, comra with 32.2 for whites. Bothp»|V/ v\ar» have followed the same aginetnM however. P CO/-66 top $c Overall, the study estimatedlly CiillPnD L'.S. population at 236,681,DOOtfl last July 1, up from 227,061,ill, 1980. The black segment of thep® Asso ulation tiu teased 6.7 percentdutap that period to 28,669,000, i^8 iallv () j ou ,. I( whiles increased only 3.2 pcrcettiT. wear j Ilir t o jo 1,358,000. Hull-page ad in “A lot of people think we are en tering an age where the Pacific — that is the United States on one side of the Pacific and the Asian coun tries on the other — are really going to dominate the world from an eco nomic standpoint the same way the Atlantic had for 300 years,” Steel man said. After Singapore, Steelman plans to move hack to Dallas but remain with the company. No return to poli tics is currently in the cards, he said. Glass Menagerie nMby ™ L ' CRABE,N The Memorial Student Center Visual Arts Friday. Stead has a wide selection of glass- Committee is sponsoring Shane Stead, a ware ranging from traditional glass ships to glass artist, in the MSC 9 a.m.-5 p.m. until pregnant pigs. Countdown begins for next space missic Associated Press Rugby player wins eel-eating contest Associated Press FRAMPTON ON SEVERN, En gland — A 24-year-old man ate kilo (about $3 a pound) they’re too Elver Eating Championship for the Mark Ryder, of nearby Gloucester, third straight year. who works up an appetite by playing “I love elvers, but at 6 pounds a rugby. The ladies’ champion, Marilyn expensive for me this year, and this Timbrell, 38, ate 500 in 18 seconds 1,000 baby eels, about a pound, in 21 seconds Monday to win the World was my first taste of the season,” said for her third straight win. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two-day countdown for space shuttle Discovery’s mission with Sen. Jake Garn aboard began Wednesday, as its sister ship Challenger moved into an assembly hangar to set up a launch doubleheader just 17 days apart. “We got off to a slow start this year, so it’s important that we achieve these two launches in a short period to get us back on a one-a- month launch schedule," said Mark Hess, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The countdown clock stalledm a.m. for the Discovery, aiming!™ liftoff at 8:04 a.m. Friday. W seven-person crew includesGart* Utah, as a congressional obseiw 1 he (light, originally set for Fell* has been postponed five limei* various reasons, scrambling NAiw launch schedule. Discovery’s commander, Bobko, and pilot, Donald Wi went Hying Wednesday me practicing landings on the runway where they are to landj 17 after their five-day mission. PARADISE FOUND. ilornia at Be p/ine. ■ And while That the Univ IcMtly got som niture, 32 “ch dollars apiece, they're also ti ■ms to lure tc dents may lie I lil. 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