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Millions of jobless young people between 16 and 24 roam the streets of major U.S., Canadian and European cities, looking for work by day and cramming into bars, beer halls, sleazy pubs and pool rooms at night. "Hanging around" has become an occupation in itself, a dreary, unstructured existence with little money and even less fun. There is talk of sex, sports and cars, as usual, but the main preoccupation is with the hopeless job market and what governments are doing to stimulate employment. Those attempts range from President Carter's proposed $1.5 billion expansion of current youth employment...
...longer looked so form-fitting. Most of the people continually circulated, a beer in one hand always giving them a reason to be wherever they were. Drinking was always a legitimate activity. Other people stood in one place, their shirts pulled down in clean lines, and let their eyes roam for them. They were drinking too, and it gave them a reason for standing in one place...
...VEEP'S MANDATE. So far, I have been given a freedom to roam. I think, first of all, that President Carter is not threatened by the Vice President. He told me when we met in July that he had just been reading some books on the presidency. One of the things that struck him was how Presidents seemed to feel threatened by the presence of a Vice President, as though he were a threat to their constitutional powers or reminded them of their mortality...
...acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature do the rest. The result: knee-high waves of goldenrod, aster, orchard grass and fleabane. Instead of a sputtering power mower, meadow larks, foxes and pheasants roam the Hagar yard...
...second source of mistreatment is the army, usually a bunch of freebooters who roam at will, breaking into houses, looting the contents, and, depending on the degree of their drunkenness and ugliness of mood, either let it go at that or work over the occupants with rifle butts or bayonets. Again, theoretically there should be restraints on this freelance terrorizing, but in practice there...