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...Jerry Campbell and Tom Scott, two 24-year-olds from Dallas who employ a ragtag army of some 170 flower children to sell carnations on the streets of several cities. The pair first tried the idea six months ago at home as a way of helping some of their jobless friends. The idea paid off so handsomely that Campbell and Scott now have flowers flown in from growers in Colorado, California and Illinois, and have hired young people to sell them in Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Little Rock, Ark., and Wichita, Kans. They intend to reach into ten other...
Overcrowding is an issue in every city, a hazard for growth. Expansion beyond the employment base is a real waste of the city's resources, and painful for the jobless. Building new housing inevitably brings outsiders in; and regardless of the condition of the vacated apartments, they are rented again. Additional units do act as a leveller on rents, and there is no question that Cambridge is in need of at least some new housing...
EDGAR SMITH. No American has endured death row longer (13 years, 7 months) than Edgar Smith-and few inmates have achieved greater self-rehabilitation. In 1957 he was a high school dropout of 23, an ex-Marine and jobless drifter. That summer he was charged with killing an acquaintance, a Ramsey, N.J., schoolgirl whose body was found in a deserted sand pit, her skull crushed by a 14-lb. boulder. Though Smith vehemently denied guilt, he was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith...
...downturn started in the autumn of 1969 and may have reached its low point in November of 1970, even though the nation is still suffering some downbeat effects. Last week the Labor Department announced that unemployment rose from 5.8% in November to 6% in December. That was the highest jobless rate since December...
...lobbyist for Bishop lames Pike in California, charged, among other tasks, with persuading the state's legislators to vote for liberalized abortion laws. During his career as a lobbyist, he began writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. After Pike left San Francisco and the abortion bill was passed, jobless Kinsolving sold his column for the Chronicle syndicate by traveling up and down the country and buttonholing editors...