Word: labor
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Greatest Love. One after another, Negro leaders began standing up to defend Powell, who faces a jail term for evading a defamation judgment. He is also being investigated by a House subcommittee looking into irregularities in the spending of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is chairman. Powell's defenders served notice that they would battle any move to challenge his seating in Congress or otherwise censure...
Barry Metzger, 21, who as a Princeton undergraduate analyzed the new radicals in his senior thesis, breaks them down into a "Programmatic Left" (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society); a "Far Left" (Communist-lining groups such as the Progressive Labor Party and the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs); and the "Pot Left"-the alienated who totally condemn society but do not believe anything can be done about...
...American" to sell. As for gain, she said, her firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
...trouble began late in 1965. Demand started to gallop far ahead of the nation's supply of skilled labor and its capacity to produce, setting the stage for a classic "demand-pull" inflation. Economists say that inflation occurs when prices rise 2% a year or more, which often happens when times are good, money is easy, and too many dollars chase too few goods. At such times, manufacturers borrow heavily to increase production and work forces, and output jumps unnaturally high. Prices climb ever upward. Unless the Government acts quickly and wisely to restore stability, a day of reckoning...
President Johnson's 3.2% guidelines for wage and price increases are, in the light of some 1966 labor contracts negotiated with Administration approval, about as up-to-date as last year's newspaper. Nevertheless, the Administration intends to carry on what an aide calls "a jawbone campaign" urging wage restraint and a return to 3.2%. The reason is that wages are a key factor in the fight on inflation, and in 1967 no less than 32 major contracts will be up for renegotiation...