Word: bending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrefutable bit of logic that forced South Bend, Ind., to open job-training schools: minimal relief for 6,900 workers let out by Studebaker Corp. last December would cost about $1,000,000 a year more than a big program to retrain them. Now, as a result of the economic blow that it suffered, South Bend is the patternmaker of a branch of U.S. education that could potentially enroll most of the nation's 4,000,000 unemployed...
Hidden Illiterates. South Bend's effort is a joint venture of the local, state and federal governments, plus the nonprofit National Council on the Aging. On a grant from the U.S. Labor Department, the council interviewed 1,348 of the dropped employees of 50 years and older, many of them Negroes and men of Polish and Hungarian extraction who had worked for Studebaker all their lives and had never before hunted for a job. Testing by the Indiana Employment Security Division showed that more than a tenth of the men had forgotten-or never knew-how to read...
Everybody called him Ivan the Terrible, but it must have been terrible for Ivan. He had back trouble, which made him just miserable every time he had to stand up or bend over. No wonder he felt like killing people. This fascinating historical tidbit came to light when the Russians removed Czar Ivan IV (1530-84) from his Kremlin tomb last year and turned the bones over to Anthropologist-Sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov, a specialist in reconstructing physical appearance from bone structure. Gerasimov got the backache idea from studying the skeleton, has now finished two busts of the 16th century ruler...
...took the Johnsons 15 minutes to move 150 yards across the field to the school. Inside he talked to the "students"-most of them men who had been jobless since December, when the South Bend Studebaker plant closed, and who were now learning new skills in federally financed classes. Said the President to one man: "We are thinking about the day when we'll have no more unemployment. I'm mighty proud of you. Tell your children that their President sends his best regards...
Back in Town? The new bend in the road describes a full circle, taking Rube Goldberg back to where he started 59 years ago, when the comic pages, Rube's natural habitat, were still good for a thousand laughs. They did not amuse Papa Max Goldberg, though. He had read about an engineer who made $1,500,000, and he thought that his son should do the same. Rube tried. He got a degree in mining engineering and for a few months listlessly designed sewer pipes for the city of San Francisco...