Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordonstoun is anything but luxurious. Dormitories are stark and functional. The daily regimen, while it pays due deference to academic achievement, ordains two cold showers a day, student-labor details (Charles, more often than not at first, drew the garbage detail), and plenty of toughening outdoor sports. The Prince was not cosseted. One of his teachers made a point of referring to him as "Charlie-boy," and on the rugby field he was hit hard, often deliberately. He made few close friends. Most boys, afraid of being scorned by their fellows for "sucking up" to Charles, treated him distantly...
...life. After the rebellion that brought independence from Britain in 1922, the Irish settled down to a succession of governments content to recall the heroics of the past rather than innovate or modernize. Last week's election was no exception, despite a strong bid for power by the Labor Party, which fielded a slate of intellectuals, most notably Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien. A onetime United Nations representative in the Congo, and most recently Albert Schweitzer Professor at New York University, O'Brien returned to Ireland, as he put it, "to give this country a credible "alternative...
...next job will be to devise ways to live comfortably with it. That will not be easy. The material prosperity of the 1960s has not produced tranquillity or happiness for large sections of the nation. A full-employment economy is a delicate mechanism, the clash of powerful forces, notably labor and management. Both forces will have to accept new atti tudes, new compromises and, above all, new restraint if the U.S. is to achieve price stability while maintaining its eco nomic freedoms...
SURPRISINGLY, the average price of such foods as chicken and coffee was lower last March than during 1958. Almost every other kind of food, however, was up-or way up. The prices, estimated by The Labor Department from data collected in 56 metropolitan areas, represent typical items in a housewife's market basket. Prices are, of course, much higher in many places...
...following figures represent the yearly gross income that a family of four must earn in each area to get by on a "moderate" standard of living. The Labor Department figures, the latest available, are for the spring of 1967-and since then, consumer prices have jumped almost...