Word: trained
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Eight hundred thousand men of draft age are currently unemployed. Uncertainty about the draft is definitely a major cause of this problem. No employer wants to train a man for a year only to lose him to the government, and no employer enjoys having to rehire a drafted worker after his discharge, as the law currently requires...
...Curious Sequence. But if President Kennedy was reluctant to talk, others were not. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus said that as many as 25 Arkansas Air National Guardsmen had been recruited by the "Federal Government" to train anti-Castro Cubans. Some of the Arkansans, he said, flew combat missions over the Bay of Pigs-an assertion denied by the White House...
...Leonard Spigelgass. At a time when the immigrant mother is disappearing from real life, a blandly sentimental portrayal of her onstage is in such great nostalgic demand that Dear Me arrived on Broadway as a presold hit, with $400,000 in advance ticket sales and a golden barge train of 365 theater parties in tow. Its chief asset is Gertrude Berg, a supermom with a heart as big as her hutzpa...
...employment has risen only 17%, while the work force has climbed 21%. In the 1960s, workers under 25 will account for 26 million new arrivals in the labor market-"a far greater number," says the President's report, "than the country has ever had to educate, train and absorb into employment in any previous ten-year period." Some 7.5 million of them will not even have finished high school, and will be seeking unskilled jobs at a time when the number of jobs for the unskilled is steadily declining...
...surrendered. Nasser has apparently had to call up the reserves. Complained Sergeant Ibrahim Mohsin Alkati, 32, who was a Cairo truck mechanic before he was recalled to duty: "I didn't even know there was a war on in Yemen. I thought we were supposed to help train the Yemeni republican army...