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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment, the 1958 recession's lingering hangover, faded fast last month to the lowest total (3,625,000) and the lowest percentage (5.3%) since December 1957. Workers went back on payrolls in April at twice the normal seasonal rate, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. No fewer than 735,000 moved from the unemployed list to jobs, 452,000 of them married men in the vital family breadwinner category. The recovering economy also brought enough additional workers (mainly young people and women) into the labor force to boost total employment by 1,200,000 to 65 million...
...total vote, compiled from 1456 ballots, Stevenson defeated Rockefeller 62 per cent to 38 per cent. Sen. John F. Kennedy, however, lost to Rockefeller by two votes in the closest contest of the poll. Other Democratic candidates suggested by the poll--Senate Majority Leader Lydon B. Johnson, Sen. Hubert H. Humphery of Minnesota, and Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri--were defeated by Rockefeller with majorities from 60 to 71 per cent, thus giving Rockefeller an average of 57 per cent of the total vote against the five Democrats...
...other Republican suggestion, VicePresident Richard M. Nixon, lost to all five Democratic candidates, receiving only 38 per cent of the total vote. Independents and Democrats definitely preferred Rockefeller for the Republican nomination, although Republicans gave him an edge of only two per cent over Nixon...
Driving a 1956 MGa, John C. Ruch '59 of Eliot House, received the Harvard Motor Sports Club Driver's Championship trophy. Ruch amassed a total of 156 points in ice trials, rallies, and gymkhanas to take a substantial lead of 20 points over second place John Welch '59 of Dunster House, and third place Mike Chamberlain '59 of Kirkland House...
...including commercial ones, five years ago), swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools to be built at a cost of $750 million, 46,000 will be private pools, and the total in the nation will rise to more than...