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...because service industries and government at all levels employ a much larger share of the nation's work force. That makes it far more difficult for the economy to offset the impact of rising wages by achieving increases in workers' productivity. The output per man-hour of a teacher, fireman or nurse can scarcely be measured, much less increased. The wholesale price index, which does not include the cost of services, has gone up more slowly than the consumer price index...
Pressing on, the Carr Mill experimenters talked a fireman into climbing a fire-engine ladder and, from a height of 70 feet, tossing eggs in a gentle arc down onto the grass. Seven out of ten eggs survived. Now the sky was the limit. The insatiable headmaster made contact with the R.A.F. liaison officer at the nearby U.S. air base at Burton Wood. Soon an American helicopter (at a cost of $400 per hour) was hovering 150 feet over the school grounds, dropping eggs onto the lawn. Only three out of 18 were broken...
...Blackmun is more disillusioned. In his biography, he says: This is my sixteenth year in the practice of law with Dorsey, Colman, Barker, Scott and Barber in Minnesota. We feel far removed from the current of Harvard activities in the East, but every now and then some visiting fireman from the class wanders west unexpectedly. The few of us who are out here are always glad to renew acquaintances...
Rioters continually threw stones and bricks at police. Police cars met volleys of bricks, though a Boston Fire Patrol car, driven by a fireman who kept his right hand raised in the v-sign of peace. drove up and down Mass. Ave unscathed...
...Journalism, though, has always been his main interest. "When I was 12, everyone else wanted to be a fireman or a policeman, but I wanted to be a newspaperman," he reminisced yesterday...