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After about 15 months of separation and wrangling over divorce terms, Yugoslavia's jobless ex-King Peter, 31, and his wife, Princess Alexandra, 33, suddenly kissed and made up. Peter headed for the Swiss mountain resort of Gstaad for a surprise reunion with Alexandra and their son, Prince Alexander, 9. Reported a friend who saw their delayed meeting: "They just fell into each other's arms un der the Christmas tree, and they have been like lovers ever since." But there was a small blight on their new-found bliss...
They're looking at the industry." Hard Selling. What the big boys saw in industry in 1954 was a record of solid accomplishment. There were some scattered cases of acute unemployment, but at worst, the total number of jobless never topped
...lawyer named Adlai Stevenson, jobless for almost two years, out of law practice for seven, was retained by Radio Corp. of America to fight a patent monopoly suit (for the past six years fought mostly with press releases) brought against RCA by Zenith Radio Corp. Rusty, perhaps, but always game, Attorney Stevenson filed a petition seeking a delay of the trial with the U.S. Supreme Court, whose Associate Justice Sherman Minton at week's end turned Stevenson's brief down cold, also denied Stevenson's request for a hearing...
...first time in a year and some steelmakers found orders were coming in faster than they were going out. Some temporary shortages cropped up for cold-rolled sheets, basic stock of the auto industry. The C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union happily reported that 18% of its 227,000 jobless members had gone back to work in the past 3½ months...
...them providing slivers of truth. Most pundits and politicos settled on unemployment as the major factor in the Democratic sweep. The U.S. Labor Department lists eight counties in Pennsylvania where unemployment is in the critical range of 10% or more of the working population. Some 377,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless; 120,000 have exhausted their unemployment compensation ($30 a week for 26 weeks); uncounted thousands more are what George Leader calls "underemployed," i.e., working less than 40 hours a week. A week before Election Day, a riot broke out in Donaldson's Crossroads, ten miles south of Pittsburgh, when...