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...that slump has given way to a recovery that has lately looked surprisingly vigorous, even though it is still dogged by a distressingly high jobless rate and a possible resurgence of inflation. Last week the Labor Department reported that unemployment in October climbed to 8.6% of the work force, from 8.3% in September-the first increase in five months. In addition, October's wholesale prices rose at a horrifying, though probably misleading compound annual rate of 23.9%. But the outlook is still for continued growth in production, which will create jobs...
...recession still has an iron grip on most major economies. Despite the October jump, unemployment in the U.S. has come down from a peak of 9.2% in May, but it is still rising in Canada, Britain, Germany, France and most other European nations. In several, the jobless rolls are likely to go on expanding for another six months or so. In the 24 industrial countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a staggering total of 14.5 million workers are now idle-more than the entire population of The Netherlands. Production of goods and services spurted...
...even with that relatively healthy advance the economy will be operating well below optimum levels. The unemployment rate has risen to 4.4%, and could well go higher this winter. In Germany, that is high enough to raise grim memories of the '20s and '30s, when legions of jobless workers flocked to Fascism...
...franchises flitted from town to town, network TV contracts never materialized, and deficits zoomed to $20 million by the end of the first season. This year, following a reorganization, the "new" W.F.L. did little better. By the time it died last week, few fans cared. Meanwhile, 380 players were jobless. Among them are a handful of celebrated N.F.L. expatriates, including Running Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick and Wide Receiver Paul Warfield from the Miami Dolphins. When, if ever, they can overcome legal entanglements to rejoin the Dolphins or sign with another N.F.L. team is uncertain. What is certain...
...sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful man, respected by other Polish immigrants as the onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed and jobless, battered by the Depression. Finally and most poignantly, he sees the suddenly aged figure as a tired warrior, so embittered by pogroms and concentration camps that he opposes furiously any contact David may have with goyim-even if the non-Jews are biblical scholars. At the novel...