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...most radical competitors for Negro allegiance, the Black Muslims, have become popular partially because of their emphasis on self-improvement programs. The demand for militance obscured the need for the NAACP itself to prepare Negroes for work in an industrial and rapidly automating economy. Because the current slack in the economy has created intense competition for jobs, the problems faced by the Negro worker are more formidable than just discrimination. Just or not, the civil rights organizations are going to have to assume a large part of the responsibility for finding jobs for Negroes and training them for the work...
...office, away from those protective family ties, Dad is visualized as a slack-jawed spendthrift with a will of tin foil. Loving ones may keep him out of expensive restaurants with a $4.25 Executive Lunch Bag (including place mat and matching napkin). There is also a do-it-yourself shoeshine kit for $5.95, disguised as a statusful French phone, with a hand bank built in to hold the money the man saves for his family with his elbow grease. And to help the will-less fellow cut down his smoking, there is a cigarette case with a time lock that...
...when he begins to sing Honestly Sincere, even the mayor's wife folds into gatelegged collapse. Pearson's 6-ft. 3-in. frame lacks the necessary baby fat for a first-class ribbing of the plot's obvious target, but the sideburns holding up the slack in his jaws have the look of authenticity...
...full steam, since the kolkhoz has no other resources but their work. But people will not work for the kolkhoz because they are not well paid. How can I break the circle? Party officials tell me. 'You're not a good leader. Your agitation-educational work is slack.' But how do you propagandize today's kolkhoznik? Without the ruble the agitation doesn't reach him . . . That's the whole question...
Freeman has a bulky domain to administer. Its budget, about $7 billion a year, is more than twice the combined expenditures of the Commerce, Interior, Justice, Labor and State departments. As of last January, a relatively slack time for Agriculture, the department had on the payroll 96,104 employees. Of these, only 11,807 were stationed in the District of Columbia and environs. The remaining 84,297 were scattered among thousands of outposts in the 50 states and numerous foreign countries. The number of farms and farmers in the U.S. keeps declining year after year-but the number of Agriculture...