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...Government reported that 7.5 million people, or 7.9% of the labor force, were out of work in August, v. 7.8% in July. Total payments to the jobless swelled from about $5.6 billion in fiscal 1974 to an estimated $18.3 billion in the 12 months ended last June 30 (see chart). In 21 states, unemployment funds have run dry, forcing the states to borrow $3.1 billion from the Federal Government to maintain the flow of money to recipients for as long as 65 weeks...
...cities (pop. over 250,000). Things were even worse in the suburbs, which racked up a 10% increase over 1974. There is still more crime in urban areas, but the rest of the country is creeping up: crime beyond the cities has leaped an alarming 40% since 1972 (see chart...
...energy. Even before the vacation rush began this year, motorists were using about as much gasoline as they had been in 1972, before the recession and the quintupling of foreign oil prices that drove the cost of gas to 60? or 70? per gal. at the pump (see chart...
From soundings taken in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, TIME correspondents assessed the struggle this way, as of week's end: 1,104 delegates for Ford, 1,090 for Reagan, 65 uncommitted. The figures (see chart) include projections of delegates to be chosen this week in Utah and Connecticut. Avowedly uncommitted delegates known to lean strongly toward one candidate have been credited to their favorite...
...took no less than 17 weeks to select the jurors (who have mercifully not been sequestered). So far, the trial has produced 22,150 pages of transcript, plus 546 exhibits of evidence, ranging from the three Winchester rifles used by guards when Jackson was killed to the medical headache chart of one of the defendants. The prosecution has called 34 witnesses, while the defense has countered with 49, many of whom support the San Quentin Six's contention that officials set up the alleged breakout in order to kill Jackson...