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...classified ad placed in two suburban papers by the Southern California Gas Co., which wanted four meter readers at a salary of $133 a week. The unemployment rate in California is 7%, compared with the national average of 5.5%. The applicants were out-of-work aerospace supervisors, machinists, housewives, draftsmen, secretaries, newspaper reporters...
Bumped by the Rules. Some JOBS programs have indeed done well. Raytheon has retained 99% of the people it hired, and a number of trainees rise to become secretaries and draftsmen. American Airlines, Eastern Air Lines and New York's Consolidated Edison also report successes. But Chrysler Corp., on the other hand, has canceled one of its several JOBS contracts calling for 4,450 production employees; and Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend is the N.A.B. chief for the whole country. The company retained other contracts and has signed one to train 1,000 auto mechanics at its dealerships...
...nine months, workers completing the program will begin regular employment as computer operators, accounting clerks, draftsmen, operating engineers, clerk-typists and key-punch operators...
Most American historians oversimplify the origins of the College when they write that the constitutional draftsmen of 1787 did not trust the people to choose a President directly. In part, the Electoral College plan did emerge as a compromise between the patrician view of government and the belief, shared by James Madison and Gouverneur Morris, that Americans should elect their President directly. Also important, however, was a seamier accommodation with slavery. The Southern states had already forced a provision into the Constitution that permitted three-fifths of their slaves to be tallied in determining their seats in the House...
...product, perhaps, of the "golden streets" myth that made 19th century immigrants feel that a trade was vaguely unAmerican. The fact is that modern technology has done away with many of the most menial tasks and thereby created millions of jobs for such skilled workers as laboratory technicians, draftsmen and electronics specialists. In the most specialized fields, blue-collar workers actually earn more than their white-collar counterparts. Yet once a student forgoes college hopes to enter a vocational program, he runs the risk of fading into instant obsolescence...