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...beautiful clear day," replied Wilson, tactfully neglecting to mention that it was 4° above zero. When Columbia Quarterback Marty Domres learned that he was the first-round choice of the San Diego Chargers, he burbled: "They sent me a brochure last week. Do you know the lowest temperature they had last year was in January...
...December rise, reflecting mainly higher cost of food, medical care and rent, amounted to only 0.2% over the November level-one of the lowest in creases in 23 months of inflation. But rising wholesale costs of such items as metal and lumber will continue to ripple through the economy in higher price tags on consumer items...
Inflationary Strains. The U.S. economy is indeed moving much too fast for its own good, and three Washington reports last week reflected the resulting strains. They showed the fastest price escalation since 1951, the lowest export surplus since the Depression and the highest interest rate on a Government security since the Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole...
...Fishbait") Miller and stood behind the lectern, nodding and smiling to acknowledge the applause. Then, pleading yet proud, he recited some of his Administration's achievements at home: Medicare, three far-reaching civil rights laws on housing and voting, job programs that have trained 5,000,000, the lowest unemployment in nearly 20 years (3.3%), more than 1,500,000 college students on federal scholarships, Project Head Start for preschool children, support for pupils below college level...
...capita income of the average American - even allowing for higher prices and inflation - has increased by one-third. So has his productivity: 7% of American workers now produce all the nation's food and manufactured goods. Yet unemployment has steadily declined, until it is now at the lowest point in 15 years. While the U.S. worries about the hard core of "unemployables," it has a limitless demand for new skills. In the new information industry, the computer and related fields, 1,000,000 programmers will be needed in the next six years (v. 200,000 now so employed). Most...