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UNEMPLOYMENT. Thanks to heightened industrial activity, the jobless rate fell half a point to 7.8% of the labor force in January. Some 800,000 new workers were added to payrolls, pushing total employment to a near-record 86,194,000. February figures to be released this week may show a slight blip upward in the unemployment rate, partly because of the difficulty of calculating seasonal adjustments, but the trend is clearly down. Indeed, the January figure was already so close to the 7.7% that the Administration had predicted unemployment would average for the whole year as to indicate that that...
WEST GERMANY is regaining some of its old economic vigor. Exports have spurted to near-record levels, and domestic auto sales may equal the 2.1 million record set in 1972. But unemployment has climbed above 1 million and seems certain to get worse before improvement begins next spring...
...started after a day of near-record temperatures, the threat of no ice before the contest because of problems with the compresser, and a noisy, rowdy Providence cheering section that put the Crimson fans to shame. Harvard stood around on the soft ice and watched as the Friars grabbed the only three goals they would get all evening...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull is, indeed, a hot article. Seeing some implications for churchgoers, I preached a sermon called "Jonathan Livingston Christian" to a near-record crowd...
...have. And they are rushing their stuff in just as hard as we are." The U.S. is doing its best to interdict Communist supplies. While maintaining its halt to air and naval attacks above the 20th parallel, American bombers are hitting the supply routes below the 20th at a near-record pace. Oct. 31, the Hanoi had hoped the agreement would be signed, 13 B-52 missions bombed the coastal routes south of Vinh...