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...ranks even more. In Kommunist, Economist G. Shubkin recently complained that two workers often shared the same task in 60 Moscow factories he studied. Shubkin's suggestion: with the "inevitable dismissal of this surplus labor," employment agencies should be set up to find jobs for the displaced workers. Liber-manist Efim Manevich made an even more daring proposal in the journal Problems of Economics. He suggested the introduction of unemployment compensation, a relic of capitalism that Stalin abolished 35 years ago. Manevich went on to urge another capitalist-toned remedy. Pointing out that the U.S.S.R. has far fewer retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Are the Jobless Unemployed? | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

Automation is also certain to liber ate both manpower and brainpower to tackle tasks hitherto considered impossible and to meet human needs till now deemed impractical. The world, after all, could certainly use a lot of improvement. "What the hell are we making these machines for," says Dr. Louis Fein, a California computer consultant, "if not to free people?" Many scientists hope that in time the computer will allow man to return to the Hellenic concept of leisure, in which the Greeks had time to cultivate their minds and improve their environment while slaves did all the labor. The slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Cybernated Generation | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...maple-leaf flag, include armed forces integration, improved federal-provincial relations, the Columbia River Treaty with the U.S. -while the economy has continued strong and growing. But Mike Pearson is doing very little pointing with pride these days. A series of embarrassing scandals cloud and threaten his Liber al government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: All Those Rusty Wires | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem-170,000 regulars, 68,000 Civil Guard troops, and 70,000 Self-Defense Forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: To Liberate from Oppression | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Winnie Ille Pu, by A. A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Liber virginibus puerisque legendis, si quis adhuc vivit satis impiger qui alienum sermonem a maioribus pantopere excultum non fastiviat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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