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...tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd met secretly in Washington with top organization lieutenants to chart the course for a massive resistance program that-in the name of states' rights-would rip all authority out of the hands of local communities and arrogate it to Richmond...
...good news from Washington on unemployment was that the jobless total dropped 595,000 in August to 4,669,000, lowest since January, as employment rose to 65,367,000. The bad news was that the rate of unemployment edged to 7.6% of the labor force (see chart), close to the postwar peak of 7.79% set during the coal strike in October...
...night they have a blow-out--the ninety-nine cent steak at the Waldorf and a bottle of Vat 69. (Sometimes they buy a can of soy beans instead of steak; more protein for less money.) As the evening dwindles away, they sing camp songs and conjure spirits and chart their astrology from cryptic directions on a weight machine. Look closely, and you will see they have holes in their socks and need a man's deodrant, and the only thing which sustains them is a vision...
...Canada's icebreaker will go a long way toward opening up previously inaccessible seas, will lengthen the navigation season in relatively mild northern waters by weeks -or months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could do so much for the north...
...Wall Street and the nation's major industries came a surprisingly unanimous report last week: the pickup is moving much faster than expected. The recovery led to the coining of a new phrase to characterize the recession-the V recession-a sharp drop followed by sharp recovery (see chart...