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...cruel irony is that plenty of good jobs are going begging, mostly in skilled or semiskilled trades. Laments Joseph Koller, manufacturing manager of Barrett Electronics in Northbrook, Ill. "I've been looking everywhere for six welders. We've had listings running for eight months." Other companies have become so shorthanded that they have revived apprentice and job-training programs that have been dormant for years...
SYMPHONY HALL. Bernard Haitink conducting the BSO and Chorus Pro Musica. Mozart: Piano Concerto in B-flat (Nerine Barrett, soloist); Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Tickets: 266-1492. April...
...troubled. His most illustrious protégé, former Governor and now Federal Judge Otto Kerner, has been convicted of bribery, conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury (TIME, March 5). Possibly even more damaging to the machine, one of Daley's oldest political associates, Edward Barrett, was recently convicted of bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion. Since 1955 Barrett had been Cook County clerk, an influential office that carries rich patronage powers. The clerk's office does everything from dispensing birth certificates to buying and operating voting machines-always an interesting function in Cook County...
...most responsible for indicting both Kerner and Barrett, and shaking the once stubbornly secure Democratic domain, is James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 36. A coolly sagacious but easygoing 6-ft. 6-in. bachelor, he calls himself a "middle-of-the-road" Republican. In the 17 months that he has been U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Thompson has prosecuted scores of mostly Democratic politicians and city employees on a variety of federal charges. Among those indicted by Thompson and his aides are: 81 precinct workers, charged with vote fraud; eleven employees in the Democratic-controlled county assessor...
...political corruption indictments, Thompson has made shrewd use of the immunity statutes. Witnesses, who would otherwise have faced prosecution, testified freely. The most damaging testimony against County Clerk Barrett came from a Philadelphia businessman who was given immunity and admitted that he had bribed Barrett...