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...depressed-areas plan was, he stated, "more a political bill than anything else." The amount of money budgeted for the program could not possibly solve the problem even if all the money were spent in West Virginia, the most chronic depressed area...
...Berlin crisis comes, in the view of such West Berliners as Mayor Willy Brandt, it will not be because of any whim or brinksmanship of Nikita Khrushchev's but because East Germany's satellite leaders have pushed Moscow into trying to rid them of a vexing, chronic embarrassment...
...that the West still maintains a position of vigor and strength in Southeast Asia--a balm badly needed after Laos. There is, in fact, so much heartening news from South Vietnam these days that one forgets how precarious the situation there really is. Announcements that the small nation's chronic trade deficit is shrinking, that its agricultural production is growing, and that a new, hard-headed American assistance program has replaced the surrealistic spending of post-Geneva days all tend to smother such easily-missed items as a recent Vietnamese government report complaining of a "lack of security in certain...
...TIME cover, March 3), served up a batch of statistics designed to show that "structural" unemployment is relatively unimportant compared to "cyclical" unemployment resulting from the recession and from the "chronic slack" in the economy...
...overcome, the volunteer usually finds one good topic for conversation--memories; eventually he will probably ask the patient about her family and her past experiences, and some patients have much to say in return. But there is a problem--almost all the women in ward E-3 are chronic schizophrenics, and their memories may have little connection with reality. Over long years of hospitalization, they have discarded experiences which they cannot face, and their minds have substituted huge barriers of fantasy...