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When a reporter asked: "How's your cold?" the President's health became the principal topic for discussion. "Almost three years ago," said he, "I contracted a bronchitis which finally seems to have developed and become chronic. And so every slight cold has a sort of multiplied effect on me." That is why, he said ironically, "I seek the warm weather and sun." He added that he had the flu before he went to California in October. "I called it flu. Whether the doctor did or not,*I don't think I ever asked him. Anytime...
...Band has its troubles, make no doubt about it. Section 35 is too small; the Dean's Office has its complaints; there aren't enough tubas to go around; and chronic financial troubles curtail more ambitious projects. Each year the Band swears it can never finish the football season, but it unfailingly does...
...diet. A machine digesting four tons of peanuts per hour would cost only $700,000, and it would supply enough protein for a city of 250,000 people. "It is no longer inevitable," says Chayen, "that the majority of the population of this earth should suffer from gross and chronic malnutrition. There is abundant protein for all, growing around them. They now have the means with which to help themselves...
While U.S. employment stands at a record high of 67.2 million, there are some areas where unemployment is becoming a permanent problem. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell last week classified 70 such U.S. areas as centers of "chronic labor surplus" because unemployment has been at least 50% higher than the national average over four of the past five years. Of the 3,426,000 workers idle in August, Mitchell estimated that 500,000 were in the 70 most distressed areas. Seventeen of the areas, including Detroit, Providence and Charleston, W.Va., were officially labeled as "chronic" for the first time...
Thus the coal-mining, textile and auto industry towns, said the Labor Department, bear the burden of chronic unemployment. In Detroit alone, automation, decentralization and lower production have brought the loss of 130,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the past nine years. This means, said the Labor Department, that since 1950 one out of every three auto workers has lost...