Word: joblessness
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...Administration's proposed Youth Conservation Corps for putting jobless youngsters to work...
...early 1958, through the inexorable workings of seniority, Mills became committee chairman?and soon suffered a stunning setback: the House rejected the very first major bill that he brought to the floor as chairman (it was a measure to extend the unemployment benefits of jobless people who had used up their quotas ). That blow left a mark upon Mills. He has never lost another major bill on the floor, but in guarding against defeat he has sometimes delayed too long or wavered too much while trying to make a committee bill fail-proof. During the 1959 session, his excessive wariness...
...onetime country estate with a 28-room mansion, the school now draws kids from all kinds of homes-not only the bright children of Bloomfield Hills auto executives but also such "finds" as a nine-year-old Detroit Negro girl with jobless parents and an IQ of 170. Typically, her public school called on the Roepers for help; her neighbors passed the hat for tuition (which runs from $600 to $800 a year). Wealthy parents sponsor many other such kids. A brotherhood of brains unites them all-the measure of which is that only 87 out of 420 bright applicants...
...Bargain. Though off relief, the new cabbies decided to keep on with their schooling. For a model they can look to Hilliard's star pupil. Laborer William Rhymes, 53. jobless since 1959. who recently outshone hundreds of rivals in a stiff exam for high school entrance. Now he aims to earn a diploma in three years. "No kid of mine is ever going to drop out of school," vows Rhymes. That's saying...
...explained that if the great powers suddenly halted production of weapons, numerous individuals would be left jobless. It is the problems of individuals in these and other areas that the U.N. is spending extensive time and funds to solve. Mme. Rossel described various U.N. activities which are designed to work with human beings instead of statistics, and outlined the recent emphasis on understanding the human growing pains" of the new countries of Africa. We should offer these countries trade and education, she said, but they must request it it is wrong and harmful for the U.N. to try force...