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...Looking ahead 30 days, the National Weather Service predicted continuing cold for about four-fifths of the nation-from the East Coast to a line roughly bisecting the Plains states and including a giant thumb jutting up from Texas as far as Idaho. The natural-gas shortage was still at crisis point. The economy was still shaken (see ENERGY and ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A further threat: surging floods if the snow and ice melt too quickly...
...time bestselling "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care." Spock, who spent his Thoreauvian night in jail for counseling youths on how to avoid the draft, will also speak at Morse Auditorium, on Sunday Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. His topic, which sticks out like a sore thumb in these staid '70's, will be "The Need for Radical Political Action...
Public service employment has its limitations. Without controls, the program can create "leaf-raking" employment and end up padding state and local payrolls without producing a net reduction in unemployment. Critics have called it "a revenue sharing program pretending to be a manpower program." A rule of thumb that has been accepted by economists holds that because of "displacement"-new workers hired while old ones are fired-it takes 1 million public service jobs to reduce unemployment by about...
...caught on in a little while, made his O.K. signal with his thumb and his first finger in a circle and managed a little smile. It was the last time I ever saw him smile...
Drug busts in Europe are mounting geometrically. So far this year, Common Market narcs have seized 440 kilos of heroin, as much as was intercepted from 1972 to 1975. By the police rule of thumb that seizures equal 10% of the traffic, Golden Triangle dope routed through Amsterdam is now rivaling the volume of the old Turkey-Marseille-New York French Connection. Many European experts see the Continent approaching the type of heroin epidemic that swept the U.S. in the 1960s...