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Imported Mountaineers. To staff its mills in Chicago and Gary, where the labor market is at its tightest, U.S. Steel announced last week that it would try to recruit 1,000 workers in Pittsburgh. According to San Francisco's Ampex, the necessity of looking farther afield for technicians has increased its recruiting costs from $3,000 to nearly...
...further afield once in a while to see what's in the netherlands," says Wessell. "But we expect the girl at Oberlin to apply anyway...
...declared a holiday. Perry Mason is so well known in Italy that his name has become a synonym for lawyer; in certain circles in Portugal, you don't call a Cabinet minister a clunkhead but a "Mr. Ed." Dr. Kildare is top-rated in places as far afield as Poland and Southern Rhodesia. And Bonanza, which is seen in no fewer than 59 countries, tots up a weekly world audience of 350 million...
...Many professionals fretted that the market had climbed too high too fast (it jumped more than 400 points in less than three years), and were concerned about the possibility that the U.S. economy was heading for a slowdown in the months ahead. Some experts began to look far afield for excuses for a fall they felt was coming. They were bothered about prospects of a hotter war in Viet Nam, about possible currency devaluation in Britain, about current recessions in France and Japan. Then along came Bill Martin with his "1920s" speech-and that did it. The market...
Unlike their Viet Cong comrades in South Viet Nam, the Pathet Lao are a conventional fighting force equipped with trucks and armored cars that bog down in the monsoon mud. Moreover, the Laotian anti-Communists now have effective insurgent bands afield in Red territory. They consist mainly of 6,000 American-supplied Meo tribesmen, tough little primitives skilled in the savage techniques of ambush and night assault. Meo loyalty has been sealed by a U.S. airlift of rice ($6,500,000 worth this year alone), which feeds 160,000 tribesmen. Along with the kernels come rifles, grenades and ammunition...