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Show by LLOYD SHEARER BECAUSE OF VOLUME OF MAIL RECEIVED. PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES Once a prime manufacturer of automobiles for the world market. Great Britain today imports 35 of the cars sold there. Of these, one out of every six is German. Several weeks ago for- Minister Peter Shore declared: "Everyone who is concerned about the future of our country mer Trade A , .. FROM NOW OK, SK0PPIN8 Approximately 30 states have laws on their TrpTO ilttJLy hooks knows as "Blue Laws." These stat- utes prohibit a variety of firms from conducting business on Sunday. Enforcement of these laws is because irregular, cases they have been declared unconstitu- in some tional at least in part. In other cases they have been viewed as and old-fashio- ned out-of-da- te. nations leading retail outlets Most of the Sears, Penney s, Mont BI American couples are more ready than ever to live together without marrying. American couples are marrying later. American couples are divorcing more frequently. lf than of black schoolchildren More all one-ha- th and more them of all white schoolchilone-four- dren' live in 19, one-pare- nt homes, in homes with one or more stepparents, or apart from either parent. Between 1960 and 1970, the number of unmarried couples of unlike race in this country doubled from 164,000 to 330,000. These are just a handful should thoroughly examine his conscience before he decides on buying a car - rr' 3 ON SUNDAY gomery Ward, Macys are open or contemplate staying open on Sunday. Although Sunday openings call for higher labor usually double-tim- costs from abroad." Winston Churchill, 36, a member of Parliament and ABOUT THIS COLUMN. grandson of the famous Winston, drives a Volkswagen. James Hunt, the racing driver lost his who is wife to film star Richard Burton, drives a Porsche. So, too, does Henrietta Guinness, "heiress to the brewery fortune. Yehudi Menuhin, Mick Jagger and Roger Moore drive Mercedes cars as do three of the four Beatles. In the U.S. A., however, the British Rolls-Roy- ce still remains the No. 1 status symbol of the show biz crowd. Red Skelton leads the pack with six different models. time-and-a-h- alf or the e retail chains have no alternative but to meet more women enter the force, Sunday is becoming a prime. day for As work family shopping in the U.S. where business in cities is now retail many and suburbs conducted seven days per week. of facts from the revised edition of "Marriage and Divorce" by Hugh Carter and Paul Glick, published by Harvard University Press. Carter was formerly chief of the marriage and divorce statistics branch of the U.S. Public Health Service. Paul Glick is a senior demographer with the Cen- QUEEN MOTHER ELIZABETH AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN Hugh sus Bureau. "Marriage and Divorce" was first pub- lished in 1970 and is considered a storehouse of information on such topics as the stability of marriage in the U.S., the changing divorce patterns among various classes and races, and the work experience and incomes of married persons. I For years various publishers have tried fruitlessly to induce Queen Mother Elizabeth of Great Britain to write her memoirs. The Queen Mother, 76 on Aug. 4, 1976, refuses to submit to financial or literary temptation. If she ever chooses to pen her recollections, Elizabeth, who was reared in the Edwardian era, will have plenty to tell. She has lived through the greatness, the twilight, A and decline of the British Empire and knew firsthand all the leading figures of the 20th century. Instead of writing, however, the Queen Mother prefers to spend as much time as possible with her grandchildren, four of whom are shown with her outside Clarence House. They are Prince Andrew, 16; Viscount Linley, 14; Prince Edward, 12, and Lady Sarah Arm strong-Jone- s, 12. t, |