WASHINGTON This is the week when the Great AmericanNose-Counting Machine, idling since the early '80s, shifts into highgear for its biggest task in 200 years of existence.
One year from Saturday - April 1, 1990 - will be E-Day (forenumeration) of the 21st decennial U.S. census. On the outcome ofthis massive people-count many things will depend, including the sizeof state congressional delegations in the early years of the nextcentury.
Officials expect to count slightly more than 250 million noses,said C. Louis Kincannon, acting census director.
Though a quarter of a billion - up from 226.5 million in 1980 -may seem like a lot, it is dwarfed by …
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