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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call for Guides. The present law has a special twist for Latin Americans and Canadians. For the first time, it set a limit on their immigration (120,000 a year), but it established no job-preference guides. The quota has been oversubscribed, and more than half the applicants are domestics and other unskilled workers. One result: Canadian firms and U.S. companies doing business in Canada can no longer transfer personnel to the U.S. for training or new assignments without a long wait. The Kennedy-Feighan bill would create a preference system favoring those with skills and management ability. This would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Where Have All the Busboys Gone? | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Hoarders have been unloading their accumulated holdings, and there are reports among bankers that the Soviets are selling gold in the West. For the first time in years, there is no significant speculation against any important European currency or the U.S. dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Bullion Break | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...takes an effort of mind to recall the time, not so very long ago, when America was still something like a collection of small towns, and a provincial newspaperman named Henry Louis Mencken was its national cracker-barrel atheist. It is, moreover, a matter for wonder that Mencken, who dressed like the gallused boors he despised, chewed cigars like a Tammany clubhouse character and had tastes that ran to beer and bawdy jokes, was ever regarded as the epitome of metropolitan sophistication. The term smart set, which was the title of his first magazine, seems sadly unsmart today. The word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun Among the Philistines | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Time...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Healthy Bulldog Booters Threaten To End Crimson's Unbeaten Streak | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...philosophy all season has been to just take the games one at a time," he continued. "We've insisted that the boys just concentrate on the next game, and we've continued with that philosophy this week." As Munro states his policy, it is evident that he is trying to keep his own thoughts, as much as his players', concentrated on Yale...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Healthy Bulldog Booters Threaten To End Crimson's Unbeaten Streak | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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