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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was teaching, Shanker felt that he had unusually good rapport with Negro pupils. But he discovered that despite his best efforts, their academic progress was often slow. Thus his goal in seeking power for his union, he says, is not only to help the schools do "a hell of a lot more" for all students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school...
...Sarnoff is now speaking with the master's voice. RCA's president for the past three years and its chief executive officer since last Jan. 1, he has made the company's marketing operations more efficient, reshuffled its management hierarchy and trimmed production and inventories to help combat eroding profit margins. His efforts have paid off. Last year RCA showed profits of $147.5 million on sales of $3 billion. Both figures are running higher...
...Help from Rothschilds. The output of goods and services is running 14% ahead of last year's $4.1 billion pace, much better than the remarkable 10% annual growth that Israel recorded during the late 1950s and early '60s. Industrial production is up by about 30% from last year's $1.8 billion rate, and just about every other indicator is rising. Inflation, in the meantime, has been held to a manageable...
Eventually, aircraft sales will help lift exports. Though expected to top $1 billion this year, exports are still far short of covering expected imports of $1.7 billion. This year's payments deficit will reach $600 million, compared with $425 million last year. Finance Minister Sharef figures that his treasury's healthy $900 million in reserves will tide the country over until Israel...
Today, Israel's biggest import is people. Partly because last year's military victory made the country more secure and stirred feelings of pride, immigration will double this year to 30,000. One-third will come from Western countries, bringing welcome skills that will help to propel the economy...