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...just a generation, the boom has gone bust. Haifa million auto-related jobs have been lost since 1979, and migration today is away from Motor City, not toward it. Turner, 29, has gone to Arizona to look for work: "That's what my father did when we moved up to Detroit." Youker, 28, an engineer with Chrysler's defense division, headed for Los Angeles and a higher-paying job with Hughes Aircraft. Jones' daughter, Anita Cousins, 41, has taken the path most traveled by departing Michiganders. She has followed the Lone Star beacon to the plenty...
After his first fistfight in a year, the battered hero rubs his knuckles and reflects: "People who become legends in their own time usually have very little time left." True enough, unless they are the cream of contemporary detectives, whose ageless task is to bust the bad guys and leave the whining and complaining to lesser mortals...
...Guardian sneered that a foreign visitor might suppose "that we were preparing to celebrate the wedding of Miss Bo Derek to the late Count Dracula." Nor do all the portraits meet the palace directive that they be reproduced only on substances of a permanent nature. Wedgwood's basalt bust of Charles fits the bill at $1,700. So does a $1,200 cannon adorned with H.R.H.'s coat of arms. But Charles and Di T shirts are taboo, to the consternation of British manufacturers and the 71 Members of Parliament who have protested that foreigners, unaffected...
...wake of the violent bust, the University gives in to many of the student demands that prompted the building takeover. At the start of the fall 1969 term, the Faculty votes by a two-to-one margin to deny academic credit for Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC courses, to end Corporation appointments of ROTC instructors, and to deny ROTC use of Harvard buildings. A few weeks later, the Department of Defense ends Harvard's ROTC program, the oldest in the country...
...federal funds spent on the military creates over 100,000 fewer jobs than the same amount spent on education, over 60,000 fewer than that amount spent on health care, fewer jobs still than the same amount spent on construction or mass transit. Partly due to the boom-and-bust nature of defense contracting, military spending is a much less effective tool for stimulating economic growth than that government spending which provides steady jobs...