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GOVERNMENT and private studies predict that white-collar jobs will occupy more than half the U.S. labor force by 1980, compared with just over a third in 1950 and 43% in 1960. Among the 15 million new jobs expected to become available in the present decade, about a third will call for professional or technical skills. Because of increasing mechanization, the number of agricultural workers will decline 21%, leaving only 2.7% of the labor force on the farm...
...They will predict a sweet delight...
...there to stimulate the economy, presumably to a degree so judicious that further inflation would be controlled. A budget, however, is only a plan and a set of assumptions. Nixon, to his possible future regret, bases his projections on a steeper upturn in the economy than most independent experts predict (see BUSINESS...
...leading manufacturers are considering still another change. Chicago's Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the largest chewing-gum maker, is one of the few producers to have kept the price of its basic five-stick pack at a nickel. Market analysts predict that the company will soon raise its prices, perhaps shifting to an eight-stick pack for a dime. On the strength of such forecasts, Wrigley's stock one day last week jumped more than nine points...
Since "this is essentially a South Vietnamese land operation," he said, he could not predict what effect it would have on American withdrawal...