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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT cry of controlled anger comes from Soviet Writer Yuli Daniel, who is serving the fourth year of a five-year sentence at hard labor for "slandering the Soviet state" in his short stories that were published abroad. Daniel is in a labor camp at Potma in the Volga basin, along with Fellow Writer Aleksandr Ginzburg, whose crime was compiling a record of the February 1966 trial of Daniel and Writer Andrei Sinyavsky (who is serving his seven-year sentence in another part of the same camp, also for "slandering the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Day in the Life of Yuli Daniel | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

After 22 years on the job, a man would seem entitled to a pension. At least the United Steelworkers union thought so when it offered $25,000 a year to Arthur Goldberg, who had served the union as counsel from 1939 to 1961. The former Labor Secretary, Supreme Court Justice and U.N. Ambassador thought about it for three weeks and then politely declined. "I'm proud of my reputation," said Goldberg by way of explanation. "My integrity is something I value very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 6, 1969 | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...yellow armbands for identification, the volunteers preceded the police in their sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Hugh Addonizio. The disorder abated quickly, without causing sympathy tremors in other New Jersey cities. In San Francisco, black clergymen, labor officials and professional people went out into the neighborhoods to help cool rising tempers following a police raid on Black Panther headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: HOPE FOR THE SUMMER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Graduates can afford to be choosy about careers these days. For one thing, there are so many more occupations -21,741 at the last count by the Department of Labor. Technological change has opened up occupations at an unprecedented rate. The computer industry needs a steady flow of systems analysts, programmers and operators. The burgeoning aerospace field needs specialists in aeronomy and the ionosphere, experts in lunar and planetary studies. Even social ills create new careers. All the prodigal wastes of the era demand new experts-in smog and pest control, not to mention sanitation technology. Ecologists maintain a watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: COURAGE AND CONFUSION IN CHOOSING A CAREER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym. Bent on prolonging their useful lives, they pedal, bounce, pull and jog, sweating and puffing off excess fat. More and more companies encourage their employees to lose weight, but none have been quite so imaginative as Lowe's Inc. of Cassopolis, Mich. Lowe's is best known as the manufacturer of Kitty Litter, a granulated clay that is used to line cat boxes. The firm, which had sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: How to Stop from Going to Pot | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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