Word: labor
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...adopted by any state south of the Ohio, goes further toward banning discrimination in public accommodations and hiring practices than the 1964 federal law. It opens to Negroes all public facilities except barbershops, beauty shops and private clubs, guarantees fair employment standards to the 90% of the labor force that works for businesses employing eight or more persons. (The federal civil rights act, even when it is fully extended in 1967, will cover only businesses employing 25 or more workers...
...walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed so often about striking the city, twinkled so brightly on television as labor's jolly showman, that New Yorkers had ceased to take him seriously until his last and biggest performance. They had forgotten the old Mike Quill...
Despite his description of the movie industry as a chaotic battle of competing inter cuts surrounded by antiquated laws, arbitrary labor unions, and general corruption, Harvey is clearly a happy showman...
Died. Newcomb Mott, 27, Massachusetts book salesman who last November was sentenced to 18 months in a Soviet labor camp for wandering across the Soviet frontier near Murmansk while on a vacation in Norway; reportedly by his own hand (the Russians claim that he slashed his throat in a lavatory of the train that was taking him to a camp in central Russia); near Kirov. Washington immediately denounced Russian handling of the case and demanded a "full investigation...
West Germany, which last year at 4.8% had one of Western Europe's fastest-moving growth rates, will probably slow to 4% or even 3.5% this year. Chief reason: economic expansion has resulted in a major labor shortage. Even with 1.2 million workers imported from other countries, there are five job openings for every unemployed person. Not surprisingly, wages rose 10% last year, squeezing profits and depressing capital investment. Though Germany still boasts the world's second highest exports (after the U.S.) and $7 billion in monetary reserves, the hunger of its increasingly well-to-do consumers...