Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laborites 17 months ago. Instead, they barely broke 13 years of Tory rule, taking office with only a five-seat majority-a margin that now stands at a mere three. In that election, Wilson's fortunes had not been helped by his reputation as the voice of Labor's left and as a scheming opportunist. Labor's current confidence is largely the result of Wilson's emergence as something far different...
...never before, Britons are expected to vote more for the national party leader and less for the local M.P. If they do this, Labor may indeed be a shoo-in. Since last July's bitter fight for leadership, Heath has failed either to unite the Tories or capture the imagination of the British electorate. On some social issues he has moved to the right, not exactly a vote-getting position. Wilson, by contrast, has become the very model of a middle-ground politician-homely accent, rumpled, and witty. Still, he refuses to be overly optimistic about the election...
Using the 200-in. giant at Palomar, Astronomers Allan Sandage and Jesse Greenstein channeled the faint light from a quasar through spectrographs, using exposures as long as six or seven hours to produce a usuable image on their film. Their painstaking labor produced tiny spectrograms that contained no color, only shadings of black and white, and were one-third of an inch long and a thousandth of an inch thick. Under the microscope, however, Sandage and Greenstein were barely able to discern strange patterns and spectral lines that had never before been observed in stellar spectra. Genuinely puzzled, Greenstein began...
...first glance, it looked like a turning point. The Labor Department reported last week that the cost of living, having gone up during the previous four months, had finally flattened out in January. The main reason was that excise taxes on auto purchases and telephone calls had been briefly rescinded. But they will be reimposed within the next month or so, and by every expectation the cost-of-living index will head higher again. In any event, last week's flattened figure is of small solace to the U.S. housewife, who is already complaining about having...
Costlier Mortgages. The Johnson Administration has nearly achieved its goal of full employment, but is baffled by the new set of problems that it has brought. Now that unemployment has edged below 4%, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz warned last week that the U.S. "is about to face a quite serious manpower problem." That has its good side: Negroes now find it much easier to land production-line jobs in the South, and unemployment has ceased to be the headache it was for all kinds of workers just a few months ago in Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston...