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...much of the new unemployment. Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson points out that at least one-third of the rise in joblessness during the past 18 months came from defense cutbacks: net reductions of 500,000 servicemen, 130,000 Defense Department civilian employees and 1,500,000 defense workers. Stubborn pockets of high unemployment in Seattle (10.9%), Wichita, Kans. (9.3%), and Bridgeport, Conn. (7.1%) bear witness to the disrupted careers of Americans who once got high pay in high-technology industries. Some have moved to Europe or Mexico in search of work. Boston Engineer Arnold Limberg once earned...
...felt that she was half a man in this conversation, half the man she walked with and half herself, the one nudging and guiding them, the other being nudged. Was this the way real women felt about men? Real women? Did they discover a man who broke open the stubborn little cells of their blood and did they at once give themselves...
Last year Northeastern had a miserable 3-20 record, but its new coach, former Bruin captain Fernie. Flaman, has tightened up the squad. The results were obvious as the Huskies outlasted stubborn Penn, 6-4, Saturday night...
Committeeman James Fitzgerald has been pressing for the immediate appointment of Frank Frisoli '35, now acting Superintendent. When it became obvious last night that his efforts would be stymied- as they had been the previous week- in a stubborn 3-3 split of the Committee, he withdrew his motion to reconsider Frisoli...
...charts have always told him that he is a Gemini. They reassure him that deep down he is a restless, versatile, clever, exuberant and expressive chap, even if friends and neighbors find him stolid, sullen and introverted. Sudden notification that this same fellow is in reality a Taurusstubborn, systematic, kindhearted and musicalis sure to prove unsettling, particularly when he appears decidedly sloppy, mean and congenitally tone-deaf...