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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roll: Where are Sam Cooke and the Drifters? Why not Van Morrison, Jackson Browne and Creedence Clearwater Revival? But the show gets all the major points straight and covers a lot of territory without stinting on either energy or spirit. Heroes will also be an eye-opener for kids whose idea of the '50s is a lot of chorus boys in black-leather jackets. For those with longer memories, this is less an occasion for reminiscence than for celebration...
...shifts of mood and all his uncertainty, manages to make his success seem ultimately stultifying without ever inviting pity. Just as important, he is not treated either as a cultural icon or as some sort of bloated, junked-up superstar, but simply as he was, a great singer whose life grew beyond him, and out of control...
...what does the rate really mean? Liberals grouse that it is too low, because it does not count people who are too "discouraged" to look for jobs. Conservatives grumble that it counts as unemployed would-be working wives and others whose joblessness scarcely plunges families into poverty. Since April, a congressionally appointed commission of nine business, labor and academic experts has been studying how to improve the unemployment figures. The group's preliminary conclusions, to be issued this week, will intensify the argument...
...which both spouses work are now the norm rather than the exception; if one loses his or her job, the family can still get along. The commission wants to devise a "hardship index" that would count many employed people who labor at low-wage jobs and exclude the unemployed whose families still have sizable incomes...
...record levels, the nation's inflation-heated economy keeps puffing along anyway, and bankers fear that lowering rates right now would make inflation worse. At week's end only Chase Manhattan and some small banks had followed Southwest's lead. Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller, whose tight money policy is a key reason that rates have been rising, told a congressional committee that he would not be surprised to see rates remain high for some time...