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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment, the 1958 recession's lingering hangover, faded fast last month to the lowest total (3,625,000) and the lowest percentage (5.3%) since December 1957. Workers went back on payrolls in April at twice the normal seasonal rate, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. No fewer than 735,000 moved from the unemployed list to jobs, 452,000 of them married men in the vital family breadwinner category. The recovering economy also brought enough additional workers (mainly young people and women) into the labor force to boost total employment by 1,200,000 to 65 million...
Nice Blend. At week's end, Johnson could rate his Northern foray a success. Massachusetts, of course, is Jack Kennedy's for as long as Kennedy wants it. Key-state Pennsylvania (more than 70 votes) is for whomever Dave Lawrence and Philadelphia Boss William Green want, and they are for the time being glad-handing everybody. But if Democrats eventually called for a compromise candidate, Lyndon had proved two points: 1) he was available, and 2) in the dark and true and tender North the middle-roading Texas swallow blended with the foliage very nicely...
...leader of a state more populous than Latin America and Africa combined, plagued by a per-capita income of $60 a year and a runaway birth rate, Nehru has strong reasons for fearing Communism at home and abroad. His solution has been to excuse China, suppress information about happenings in Tibet, and to muffle India's outrage. But last week many Indians were wondering if Nehru's way was the right one. Their doubts were voiced by the Praja Socialist leader, Acharya Kripalani, who told Nehru in Parliament that "our efforts to save the friendship with Red China...
...drivers whip past trucks on hills and blind curves, weave nonchalantly from lane to lane on the few big throughways. Picnicking on Sunday, drivers blithely leave their cars parked in the path of traffic. Last month 515 Britons died in traffic accidents; 23,277 were injured. The British death rate per auto-miles-traveled is 66.6% higher than...
...addressed to two pivotal questions: How much of fission's byproducts -notably strontium 90, which enters the body in food, accumulates in the bones and may cause leukemia and bone cancer -can the human body safely tolerate? How much has been injected into the air and at what rate is it coming down...