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...season for that glum annual speculation: Will the nation's cities erupt in racial violence? As temperatures climb and hundreds of thousands of youths find themselves jobless in the ghetto streets, this year the tinder is drier than it has been since the fiery spring of 1968. While the urban ghettos have seemed quiet for a long time, it was plain all along that there was discouragement, if not despair, beneath the surface, and that violent anger could again erupt if conditions failed to improve...
...cool sea and warm weather caused the island's economy to flower brightly. Now Puerto Rico is clouded by recession. Once-thriving garment and shoe industries are suffering from foreign competition, agricultural employment has plunged (soaring costs and shrinking markets soured the sugar industry), and the jobless rate has risen to 13%. Migration to the U.S. mainland, which declined during the boom years, is swelling again. The most obvious sign of Puerto Rico's economic malaise-and one of the prime causes of it-is the island's slumping tourist trade...
...Labor Department to retrain up to 2,000 unemployed engineers this summer for work on urban problems. Still, scientific leaders think this is not enough. The president of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Melvin Calvin, for example, wants direct federal salary support ($10,000 a year) to help the jobless as they start new careers...
...offices of the local Lock heed plant is one of spacious melancholy, like the first-class ballroom on the Ti tanic after most of the passengers had jumped ship. At nearby Mountain View, apartment owners are offering $50 to tenants who find friends to fill the va cancies. As jobless blue-collar workers and engineers have used up their un employment benefits, the rolls of food-stamp recipients in San Jose, Calif., have grown from 9,000 to 37,000 in the past year. Unemployment in the Se attle area is now 13.1%. Hundreds of workers dismissed by United Aircraft...
...become a member and train one weekend a month. "I know one thing," says Cline. "I'll never again work for Lockheed?or anything that lives on Government contracts." heed?or anything that lives on Government contracts." In Wichita, Kans., where aerospace plants have grown amid the wheatfields, the jobless rate has risen to 10.6%. Little bitterness is evident, but many people are troubled by the seeming unreality of the situation. Says Carl Courter, an International Association of Machinists representative: "When a Senator talks about retraining the work force, I want to ask him, 'Senator, what for?' We already have...