Word: problem
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...naval officers (two Annapolis graduates), three from the Air Force (no West Pointers), and one was-as he put it-"a lonely marine." Obviously the selectors of the seven had remembered the separate services, and in the flood of applicants for the first trip into space, it was no problem to get good men of three uniforms...
...study of the Freshman Year may well be one of the next large-scale projects of the Committee on Educational Policy. CEP members have shown an increased interest in this problem for several weeks, although formal consideration is still pending...
...over a year the Eisenhower Administration has refused to concede that unemployment is a lasting problem in the present American economy. For over a year, however, more than four million Americans have been unemployed, and there are a number of people who think that such a statistic represents more than a transient concern...
...thousand such people "marched" on Washington in early April to let the Administration see that the problem was a real one. They were met by that fine, old, "prosperity-is-just-around-the-corner" line which Republican officials have found so handy in times of economic crisis. Specifically, they were told--in a Labor Department press conference clearly aimed at quieting them--that unemployment was on the decline, that the problem was licked, that they could go home and trust...
...political fence. Labor Secretary James Mitchell said that he was "proud to stand on the record of 64 million jobs in this country as of today" and promised three million more by October. But he also indicated that he had "not been satisfied" with previous Administration action on the problem, a sentiment in which his audience concurred. The Democratic leaders were not much more helpful. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, contented himself and apparently the labor chiefs, with a promise to form another study group to get to the heart of the unemployment situation. But there is already a plethora...