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Despite November's sharp dip in unemployment, the total at year's end was still running half again as high as the 4% rate that the Administration deems toler able. More serious, there had been painfully little reduction of unemployment amongst those last-hired, first-fired groups of Americans: the unskilled, the Negroes, the very old and the very young, notably the high school dropouts. In 1961, unskilled and semiskilled laborers constituted less than a quarter of the U.S. work force-but almost half the long-term unemployed. In an increasingly automated and sophisticated economy, those workers...
...eating. Sip soup from the side of the spoon or from the end-it makes no difference. Asparagus may be eaten with the fingers, as may artichokes and corn on the cob (exception: chicken). The finger bowl? Don't ponder its use; just remove it until time to dip fingertips. Other items...
Good football weather is promised for The Game today. Skies should be clear and the temperature will remain in the lower 40's. Northwest winds will reach 20 to 25 miles per hour. Tonight will be fair, but temperatures, alas, will dip into the middle...
...cold and overcast on the Baltic coast. Rusted strands of barbed wire run over the sand dunes and dip into the sea. Across the border in East Germany is a vista of desolated heath, broken only by a squat Communist watchtower. Some 20 yds. beyond the barbed-wire barricade, the East Germans have hacked through the underbrush and cleared a strip of land 15 ft. wide. Later, I found that it rambled the entire length of the frontier. The purpose of the strip is to enable authorities to trace the footsteps of fleeing East Germans to determine their route...
...enterprises with capital assets of less than $100,000. Though there has been some recent improvement, small-business failures struck a 29-year high in August, and have been running consistently higher than in previous years. The trouble is usually attributed to undercapitalization. In a business dip, capital is to a business man what oxygen is to a submariner-and many small businessmen simply lack enough to stay alive...