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...inhabitants into seven successive "root races," each more immoral than the one before. The first two races, she proclaimed, were semi-spiritual "shadows of the shadow of God." The third was a race of fourarmed men who inhabited a lost continent named Lemuria and were doomed 60 million years ago when they discovered sex. The fourth, recognizably human, went down with Atlantis 12,000 years ago, sunk by sex plus power. Our own race, which got off to a bad start with Adam, is the fifth, and it too may be about to expire-or perhaps find strange new powers...
Adams nonetheless patented his battery in 1943. Then ten years later, the Army got a patent of its own-without a word to Adams-and ordered more than a million batteries built to its own design. Sure that he had been bilked, Bert went to court. Six other men, who had backed the invention, joined the suit. Not until 1966 did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Bert's patent had indeed been infringed. Last February the lawyers involved agreed that the Government should pay $2,500,000 in damages...
...Federal Trade Commission is fretting over the number as well as the size of acquisitions. Last year there were half again as many mergers (1,500) as there were in 1966, and 83% of them involved conglomerates. Large mergers (involving companies with assets of $10 million or more) doubled to 155; during the first two months of this year, no fewer than 40 more were pending or completed...
Marking something of an economic milestone, the Labor Department last week reported that in June the U.S. work force topped the May level by 2.7 million, reached 80 million for the first time in history. And with an increase of 1.3 million jobs, there were more Americans than ever before-77.3 million-picking up paychecks...
...superlatives. If the nation's employment increased, its unemployment jumped even more dramatically. Though June school closings traditionally loose hordes of eager job-hunting students on the labor market, this June's joblessness rose a full 200,000 more than anyone had expected. It rose to 3.6 million as compared with 2.3 million in May. As a result, the nation's overall unemployment rate climbed from a 15-year...