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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek living in Albania, Thomas Karathanos saw the Communists torture his father to death in 1944 and himself spent five years in forced-labor camps. In May of 1954, he and six surviving members of his family attempted to flee to Greece; Albanian border guards ambushed the party and slaughtered all save Karathanos, who made good his escape [TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

More Americans held jobs in July than at any other time in the nation's history. According to a Department of Labor report, 76,200,000 American men and women are employed, up 1,500,000 from the same period a year ago. Unemployment, which for 18 months had remained relatively stable, dipped slightly from 4% to 3.9%, even though 3,600,000 youngsters between 16 and 21 have poured into the labor force since April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Record Employment | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...bail out the nation's cumbersome social security system, which is $600 million in the red, French workers, he said, will now pay more taxes and receive fewer benefits. In addition, he announced, he has imposed compulsory profit sharing on all French companies, a measure rejected by labor as meaningless, opposed by big business as ruinous, and considered by most of his Cabinet members to be frivolous and unworkable. Both decrees may well lead to a general strike when French workers return from the beaches in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: No Doubts | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

Clannish, often introverted, programmers labor over problems that demand logical thinking (though not necessarily mathematical background) and painstaking attention to detail-yet defy solution by any standard or scientifically disciplined approach. "Some call it an art and some call it black magic," says A. W. Carroll, RCA's manager of systems programming. Whatever it is, the talent is scarce enough that many companies show great tolerance for "wild ducks." "I overcame my prejudice against working for IBM," says full-bearded Manhattan Computer Expert Larry Josephson, 28, "when I was interviewed by a man dressed in a musty old suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Software Snarl | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...University refused to re-open talks until the State Labor Relations Commission held an election to determine which of the three unions the employees actually favored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Panel Declares BCMC Is B&G Union | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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