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Even the best program is worthless unless there is something for the worker to do once it is over. Unfortunately, that is seldom the case, as former Rubber Worker Russell Silcox, 56, knows well. He has not held a permanent job in 4½ years despite taking a 40-week course in diesel mechanics and spending six weeks in a Government-funded program making plastic coat hangers. Earlier this month he began a twelve-month training program as a heavy-equipment mechanic. His family of four is just getting by on his unemployment benefits and his wife's nursing...
...Pope John Paul IPs eight-day trip to Central America and Haiti drew to a close last week, the dividing line between religion and politics seemed to have all but disappeared. On none of his previous 16 foreign voyages had the Pontiff so consistently called for social justice, and seldom have his words and gestures been so carefully watched. Said a Vatican official traveling with the Pope: "Even when he says Mass it seems to have political implications...
...century standard she was peripatetic. Elizabeth I would set out from London on "royal progresses" through the countryside, prompting an extravagant social frenzy everywhere she stopped. On a typical 1560s tour of Suffolk, one witness wrote, the Queen's hosts laid on "such sumptuous feastings and banquets as seldom in any part of the world hath been seen before." The provincials' Elizabethan party clothes were to die for. "All the velvets and silks that might be laid hands on were taken up and bought for any money," which made for "a comely troop and a noble sight...
After that, the season blurred into a series of victories, in which the Crimson was seldom challenged after a surprising victory over Princeton in Jadwin Gym. The Tigers had beaten Harvard twice last year to end Ivy and National title hopes, and the Crimson still worried about depth in a line-up that seemed too top-heavy with power players. But a 7-2 victory over Princeton ended that fear, and the Tigers' 10-year dominance. From there, the Crimson never looked back...
Latin America has seldom been short of renowned poets, notably Peru's César Vallejo and Chile's Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both of whom won Nobel Prizes. But in the 1960s, North America began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...