Word: 1960s
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Women clutched children to their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
Some economists expect that productivity will continue to rise faster in the 1960s than in the 1950s. Business capital devoted to more productive plants and machines is increasing at an amazing rate of 4% a quarter, next year is expected to reach a record $44 billion...
Models for the 1960s. Once the U.S. gets over the soft middle years of the 19605, when the war babies crowd into the labor market, the leaders of the new economy will be in a strong position to lift the nation toward much higher levels of prosperity. Their new efficiencies have enabled them to profit and expand even during times of relatively slow demand and steep taxes. Given a sensible tax structure and stronger demand all around, they should be able to raise earnings appreciably without raising prices. "All the factors for growth are there," says Gordon...
...sunspots are storms on the sun, but until men and their instruments burst out into space, the solar storms had little significance for humans. They are vitally important now; the brilliant solar flares associated with sunspots spray the whole solar system with streams of deadly radiation. In the late 1960s, when U.S. astronauts are scheduled to start their voyages toward the moon, the sun will be getting manic once more. The astronauts' trips will be far safer if they can be scheduled for intervals between solar flares...
...first annual manpower report to Congress warned that if present tendencies continue, total unemployment will hit 7% by 1967. It noted a continuing failure to find enough jobs for young people. Since 1947, U.S. employment has risen only 17%, while the work force has climbed 21%. In the 1960s, workers under 25 will account for 26 million new arrivals in the labor market-"a far greater number," says the President's report, "than the country has ever had to educate, train and absorb into employment in any previous ten-year period." Some 7.5 million of them will not even...