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...have become walls of a prison. There are only three ways out: by helicopter (at $120 per hour), on foot or by horseback. The eight-mile pack trip to the lip of the can yon takes three hours, but this is just the first leg. Havasupai in need of sup plies must travel 120 miles to Kingman, Ariz. From there merchants will ship goods back to the canyon at a 40% to 60% premium...
...raising the prospect that predominantly white oldtimers might willingly relinquish jobs to black newcomers, the U.A.W. is neither so naive nor so self less as it might sound. Thanks to sup plemental unemployment benefits and the guaranteed annual income that Walter Reuther's union has won in recent years, veteran workers would hardly suf fer at all. A man with a year or more on the job would still draw nearly 95% of his weekly wage for 31 weeks. A man on the job for seven or more years could get similar benefits for a full year. Under ordinary...
Frelimo's military operations in Mo zambique reflected these difficulties. The tempo of combat has dropped in recent months, or so the Portuguese claim, but Frelimo's estimated 8,000 well-trained guerrillas (most of them Mozambicans trained in Tanzania and sup ported from that country) are tying down more than 40,000 Portuguese regulars. The major centers of Frelimo activity are in northern Mozambique, where the rebels fully control three districts: the area around Tete, on the Zambezi River in the northwest and on the Mueda plateau in the north...
...World Bank (now headed by Rob ert Strange McNamara), which makes loans to underdeveloped countries. Bretton Woods' key decision was to stick with gold as the primary international monetary asset. In vain, Britain's John Maynard Keynes argued for creation of a new international money to sup plant gold. He warned that reliance on "the barbarous metal" would ultimately lead to a drying up of reserves and re strictions on trade and capital flow. The U.S. (then holding some 57% of the world's monetary gold) prevailed with its view that creation...
...show you that they are not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston-Providence Area. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.* BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE NAME OCCUPATION Easy Diff. BEGINNING Easy Diff. ENDING George Adams, sales sup. 244 175 756 928 Laura Anderson, student 292 290 1824 950 Ruth Atran, student 413 290 1536 1682 Jeneth Antonucci, cashier 269 232 1250 1930 John Angier, inv. sec. 240 230 1158 1015 Walter Butler,accountant 362 349 912 830 Rodney Bond, student 358 265 1700 1250 Nancy Brenner, housewife...