Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering so badly in the January weather that her friends had to hold her to keep her warm, Larisa Daniel was asked why, when her husband was already in a labor camp, she was there. Said she: "I cannot do otherwise." Ginzburg got five years' hard labor; as the defense lawyers left the courtroom for the last time, people in the crowd pinned red carnations on them...
Lost Expectations. Another factor in the Social Democrats' resounding victory was the inability of Sweden's opposition Conservative, Liberal and agrarian Center parties to forge an effective alliance. Overconfidence played a part. When Norway threw out its long-ruling Labor Party three years ago, and Denmark followed suit by unseating its Social Democrats last January, Swedish opposition leaders thought they perceived a trend to the right, and smugly expected Sweden to move in the same direction. The trend proved more apparent than real, since nowhere has any part of Scandinavia's all-embracing welfare system been repealed...
Thousands of young, college-educated girls are uprooted from China's great cities every year and sent off to the boondocks for the stint at manual labor that is demanded of intellectuals in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's domain. In Peking alone, 40,000 coeds from the class of '67 have been told to start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese...
...important indicators show strong gains. Thanks to rising wages, personal income in August climbed by more than $5 billion for the fourth straight month. That advance lifted incomes to an annual average 9% above that of the first eight months of 1967. Unemployment shrank to 3½% of the labor force, matching a 15-year low. Adding up the figures, the Commerce Department conceded last week that the gross national product-the total of everything produced in the U.S.-will show "a substantial increase" during the third quarter...
...foreign suppliers. But prices are still climbing for just about every other kind of product and service, in large part because of wage settlements that averaged nearly 7% during the first half of this year. In an election year, Washington's reaction is to criticize business, and reprove labor gently if at all. Last week the Administration denounced Chrysler Corp. for announcing a price boost on its 1969 models (see following story); the Government barely mentioned the increase in wages and benefits that the auto workers union won from the industry last year...