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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, November 23. A world survey by the United Nations appears to contradict the much-publicised theory that television curbs enjoyment of the printed word. People are reading more books, and more are still watching the television screen.
According to the latest issue of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Year Book, there were 236 million television sets in 1968—eight times more than in 1953 and 487,000 book titles were published in 1968, a 70 per cent increase over 13 years. Other facts in the year book show that Swedes are the world’s most avid newspaper readers, and the people of Taiwan, the world’s most enthusiastic film-goers—there people went to the cinema an average of 66 times in 1967. But cinema-going dropped in some countries. In Britain, says the survey, the average attendance was four times a year in 1968.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32462, 24 November 1970, Page 15
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