Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border-industries scheme was doomed before it started. Even though the Bantustans are an obvious source of cheap labor, they are so remote from both market and raw materials that most white capitalists want nothing to do with them. In the 18 years since he first propounded the scheme, only 94 small factories employing 20,000 Africans have been erected on the borders...
...reason is economic. South Africa is in the middle of a massive boom. Attracted by cheap labor, a gold-backed currency and high profits, investors from all over the world have plowed money into the country, and the new industries that they have started have sent production, consumption-and the demand for labor-soaring...
Uncovered 18 months ago, Rabinovich escaped arrest by traveling from city to city and staying in furnished rooms until "Soviet justice caught up with him." His punishment, however, was swift; at least two of his eight accomplices went to forced-labor camps, but after a one-hour trial, Rabinovich was sentenced to be shot...
...tough new law against rowdy behavior were four tipplers who had arrived high as a kite at a soccer stadium during a match. They were fined on the spot, and their sentences were announced over the stadium loudspeaker. In another incident, a mine manager drew two months' "corrective labor" for hooliganism in a restaurant. In jail he got cooked meals only every other day, on alternate days only bread, salt and water. As if that was not indignity enough, his head was shaved...
...model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours of labor. A few pioneers are even sending aloft mice and grasshoppers, which successfully parachute back to earth at the end of the ride...