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...last week to the latest decrease in the unemployment rate (see THE NATION), U.S. economists puzzled over some employment statistics that the President failed to mention. For years, the economists have predicted that because of the baby boom of the 1940s, the number of Americans looking for jobs would swell to unmanageable proportions in the 1960s...
...often a nation produces a genuine hero, raised above the multitude by acts of valor or virtue in times of war, crisis or national frustration. He may come from any walk of life, so long as he fills the nation's need to elevate its vision and swell its pride. From Washington to Sergeant York, from Lindbergh to MacArthur, the U.S. has had its share of heroes. But few have encountered the universal approval and adulation that last week engulfed Astronaut John Glenn...
...despite these obstacles, the number of students pouring into Washington to support the quest for peace continues to swell every hour. Student leaders of the Project predicted tonight that up to 4000 students may demonstrate in a peace march and mammoth rally tomorrow afternoon. About 200 participants, including most of the leaders of Project Washington, are from Harvard and Radcliffe...
...prime reason for the rise in profits was the onrush of cost-cutting automation. GENERAL ELECTRIC, which for the past six years has been spending 85% of its capital budget on new machines and only 15% on plants in which to put them, saw its earnings swell 21% to $242.5 million last year. (Archrival WESTINGHOUSE was also automating rapidly, but its profits slid from $79 million to $45 million, due largely to a slump in the heavy electrical apparatus market that accounts for 50% of Westinghouse's sales v. only...
...Food Is Swell...