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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...American Social Health Association and two other national health organizations, tallying up figures for fiscal 1959, reported a general VD rise in 29 U.S. states and 49 major cities. For the country as a whole, the syphilis rate was up 1.2%, gonorrhea up 6.3%. In a pattern that threatens faster rises in the near future, health officers found 22.8% more cases of syphilis in its early infectious stages...
...start. Turning to Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, whom the Russians regard as "hopelessly" pro-Western, Nikita Khrushchev began to twit him on the Alitalia DC-6B in which the Gronchi party had arrived. Said Khrushchev: "Since you buy your airplanes abroad, you should know that ours go much faster. Why don't you buy airplanes that are faster and perhaps cheaper?" Taken aback, Pella began to argue that Russian jets actually cost more than the U.S.-made DC-6B (an obsolescent type on U.S. airlines). Khrushchev dismissed the point with a proverb: "When fish is cheap...
Pickup Jobs. One day next month, tall, handsome Conductor Schippers (6 ft. 3 in., 175 Ibs.) will celebrate two milestones: his 30th birthday ("at last") and the tenth anniversary of his debut as a conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become...
Doubt was cast on another economic probability last week. Housing experts had expected tight money to cut building this year. But the Federal Housing Administration said that requests for loan guarantees had jumped 13% in December over November. That indicated that the construction industry may travel at a much faster pace than expected...
...nation's fast population growth continues during the '60s the number of new workers will grow even faster. By 1970, the study said, the U.S. work force will have risen by nearly 20% to 87 million, the largest increase in any ten-year period in U.S. history. Between 1960 and 1970, 29 million new workers will enter the work force, but the net increase will be only 13.5 million because 15.5 million workers will die or retire...