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Zachry faces no such problems. Much building labor in San Antonio remains unorganized. And commercial construction costs, according to the American Appraisal Co.'s widely used index, rank as sixth lowest among U.S. cities-8% above those in cheapest Savannah, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., but 35% below those in costliest New York City...
Ford did manage to wring some relief in the haggling over the last major contract hangup, which concerned the U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause. While the old contract provided for unlimited automatic wage adjustments geared to the consumer price index, this time Ford got annual ceilings of 8? and 7? in the second and third years of the contract, agreeing to a minimum annual increase of 3? in return. The pennies were not peanuts; 1? an hour on Ford's 160,000-man payroll means $3,200,000 a year...
...accompanied by fanfare. Yet, as anyone who looks at past copies of TIME will immediately recognize, the editors have changed the magazine gradually but dramatically over the years. In this issue there are two changes in editorial presentation that the reader will first notice when he glances at the index...
After standing at unaccustomed ease through the spring and most of the long summer, prices are beginning an upward march. The consumer price index, which had been slowly creeping up earlier in the year, increased 0.4% in July to a record 116.5-or 16.5% above the 1957-59 base level. More significant was a stirring in the cost of basic industrial products that generally foreshadows general price trends. After five months of stability, industrial goods rose a substantial 0.3% in August...
...Hartogs' eight-letter thoughts on four-letter words are confusing enough to make a saint swear. On the one hand, he says that excessive swearing may be a "symptom of pre-schizophrenic personality disintegration." On the other, he regards the growing use of obscene language as "a rising index of spiritual freedom." But he can't quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally. As Dr. Hartogs prefers...