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...researchers at the BLS, the rationale for excluding these dispirited jobless Americans is that the unemployment rate is supposed to chart fluctuations in the conditions of the active labor force, not to paint a complete portrait of human hardship. London and other discouraged workers may be right that they could not find jobs; but BLS researchers reason that the discouraged are not job seekers if they are not offering themselves to employers. Thus the discouraged are lumped with about 60 million other Americans who are classified as "not in the labor force," because they are in school, disabled, running households...
...Mexico, translated and indexed French and Spanish records in New Orleans, operated the bankrupt city of Key West, Fla. Unemployed writers like Conrad Aiken and John Cheever were put to work creating the American Guide series. Artists like Ben Shahn, Jackson Pollock and Alice Neel (see cover portrait) painted pictures to be displayed in schools and other public buildings. The WPA Federal Theater Project provided 12,000 jobs for novelties like Orson Welles' all-black version of Macbeth and the jazzed-up Gilbert and Sullivan Swing Mikado. "It takes a lot of nerve," Hopkins warned Theater Project Chief Hallie...
...could be his favorite White House view. The Red Room surely is his (and Nancy's) special one among the public chambers. She may have had the best time on her own at the royal wedding in London. She went a little batty over the Queen Mother; a portrait of the lovable old lady is in Nancy's office...
Speaking at a benefit showing of "Eight Minutes to Midnight," a documentary portrait of her personal fight for nuclear disarmament, Caldicott characterized the political situation as "really grim... more grim than when the film was made...
Buckley embroiders this story with subplots and uneven characterizations of such personages as Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Dean Acheson, Nikita Khrushchev and Charles de Gaulle. The results are mixed. The author's portrait of Hoover, for example, seems a weak parody of old newsweeklies: "Jut-jawed, beefy, all business...