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...Cavanagh insisted that Detroit had a chronic unemployment problem (current rate: 10%, v. the national average of 6.8%). He charged that industry was pulling out of the city. He claimed that the number of vacant housing units in the city jumped from 9,407 in 1950 to 38,362 in 1960. He cited a report of the nonprofit Citizens' Research Council that predicted that Detroit would have a municipal deficit of $15 million in 1961-62. "Detroit has serious problems and the mayor won't admit it," said Cavanagh. "What about the neighborhoods where people are worrying about...
...President four times, has completed only one term. A spellbinding orator who swings from right to left to suit his audience, he was elected last year by the votes and demonstrations of what he calls "the divine mob." But in office, he did little to ease Ecuador's chronic problems. Promised campaigns for land reform, slum clearance, roads and industrial development were slow in coming; living costs rose 30% in six months, wages failed to keep pace. The final straw was a "tax reform" program that angered the public...
...Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was killed by a bolt of lightning that passed through his head. Safely insulated scientists have tried to duplicate Franklin's trick, hopeful that they can learn to cause lightning at will. But by last week even the U.S. Department of Defense was convinced that it is no small stunt to lure lightning out of a passing cloud...
Slowing Engine. Still another reason for falling labor costs has been a shift in union tactics. Under the pressures of automation and chronic unemployment, union leaders are placing greater emphasis on job-security benefits instead of straight pay raises.The result: manufacturing wage increases, which averaged 5.1% in 1957, will amount to less than 3% this year...
...noted, however, that a primary cause of tension between Israel and its Arab neighbors is the chronic refuges problem, which is exactly what Project Jarba will try to alleviate. "Would Phillips Brooks House be practicing discrimination if in striking a blow at one of the major causes of Arab prejudice it recognizes the practical considerations raised by the existence of that prejudice?" Miss Taylor asked...