Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cover: Watercolor on colored paper by Bob Peak...
...Cairo, the capital of Nasser's own country, that anguish over his death reached its peak. All week long, the lower-class fellahin poured into the city. They came on foot or riding donkeys, aboard bicycles or cars or ancient trucks, clinging precariously to the roofs and sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri...
JOBS will continue to be hard to find because production will not expand as much as the number of potential workers. Unemployment will go a bit above the present 5.5% ; Okun foresees a peak of perhaps 6% some time during 1971. Thereafter it will decline, but may be almost as high at the end of next year as now. Grove predicts a rate of 5.4% in the fourth quarter...
...strength were plain enough. Sweden's brand of state-supervised capitalism has given the country Europe's highest per capita Gross National Product in 1968 ($3,230 v. $4,305 in the U.S.), shortest factory hours (35.4 per week) and highest retirement pensions (two-thirds of peak earnings). Despite those pluses, the country has a ringingly familiar list of social complaints...
Ph.D.s' Dream World. These specialists are the vanguard of an army that seems sure to grow. Pentagon Comptroller Robert Moot last week told defense manufacturers that the annual rate of new contract awards fell from a peak of $42.3 billion in 1968 to $34.4 billion in June, and will drop to $28 billion by next June...