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...Committee of the Massachusetts House with well-documented evidence on what amounts to an up-dated slave trade. Working with Southern affiliates, Boston agencies advertise in Dixie newspapers, offering feminine domestic jobs at $35 to $60 a week. Upon arriving in the North, the girls find their work much heavier, and their salary much lower, than promised. Suddenly they owe the agency a large, mysterious, unitemized "fee." If work is not immediately available, the agency holds their luggage and threatens them with "the law." Many girls spend months working themselves out of an illegal debt; others escape involuntary servitude...
...index to get a more accurate reading of monthly price movements. Food is expected to be less important than in the existing index, and housing and transportation relatively more so. With the first sniff of inflation in the air, a key question is whether the new index, with its heavier emphasis on services, will rise faster than the old one, which has crept up 1.2% annually since...
...American Motors introduced its new experimental sports car, called the Tarpon. It is the forerunner of a fastback four-seater that the com pany plans to introduce during the '65 model year. Designed more for comfort than for high performance, the new U.S. sports cars have heavier, larger bodies than their trimmer European counterparts...
...Army ground forces, whose manpower has been raised by 45% within two years. In a gentle but unmistakable reminder to U.S. allies, the Pentagon chief said that unless they hiked their own contributions to NATO, Congress and U.S. public opinion would become increasingly restless over Washington's far heavier share of the Western defense burden...
Ross discovered the colorful symbiosis in the pine-covered Tuxtla Mountains of southern Mexico. The ants, which are less than half an inch long, live in nests tunneled out of wood. The caterpillars, one inch long and much heavier than the ants, are the naked, vulnerable larvae of a rare butterfly...