Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with outmoded skills. The heavy burden of employee fringe benefits and employer contributions to Social Security and unemployment-compensation funds prompts some big employers, like those in the auto industry, to work their labor forces overtime instead of hiring. The Nixon Administration has sharply reduced funds to hire ghetto youth and support ? job training programs for minorities -cutbacks that, asserts the N.A.A.C.P.'S I Hill, could consign many ghetto dwellers to a future in which they "have no anticipation of ever entering the labor force" and will have to turn to crime...
...West Berlin at the United Nations. On relations with East Germany, the Chancellor hopes that Brezhnev can spur some action on the agreements that were supposed to follow the treaty that was signed last December, "normalizing" relations between the two Germanys. The proposed pacts would cover such areas as youth exchanges, sports competition and civil air routes...
...FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, started in 1955, has a mailing list of 55,000 and a staff of 36. Its purpose: "to confront athletes and coaches-and through them the youth of the nation -with the challenge and adventure of following Christ." The high point of its easygoing program is a series of week-long summer conferences, which 9,500 athletes, coaches, and their families will attend this year, starting May 27 at Arkansas Tech. The F.C.A. sponsors groups at 1,400 high schools and 215 colleges, and schedules banquets, golf tournaments, and pre-Bowl breakfasts for adults...
...spring of 1973 has brought a worldwide revival of interest in a mustachioed, vegetarian nonsmoker. An artist and architect, he was a firm believer in astrology and, though a speed freak, surrounded himself with people who preferred cocaine and morphine. His appeal to youth was legendary: he could hold an auditorium spellbound for hours with a vocal solo. He died underground, committing suicide in protest against a social climate that he found oppressive...
...trade in your Youth Fare card for a Metroliner ticket just...