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...there any cheer in the latest Labor Department jobless figures. They showed 3,788,000 unemployed in August. More important, unemployment did not decline as steeply as it should have between July and August, and the seasonally adjusted percentage of unemployed rose from 5.4% in July to 5.9% in August-the highest percentage since the steel strike last fall. Employment in August, though it set an alltime high for the month with 68,282,000 working, actually involved a working force that was 407,000 fewer than in July...
While the figures seemed to show the jobless problem becoming worse, the Labor Department made its survey during the week when auto plants were shut down for model changeovers, and all the temporarily laid-off workers were counted as "unemployed." Not until the September survey, when these unemployed will be back at work, will the Labor Department know whether the rise in jobless is actual, or merely a statistical distortion...
...that his mother, a dogged but unprosperous artist, gave him some paint and old brushes and told him to "go away and amuse yourself." At eight, he was picked out of 5,000 contestants to illustrate a book of Argentine tales. Though pleased, neither his mother nor his perpetually jobless father seemed to take their son's accomplishment too seriously; they even left Aldo with friends for a year while they traveled in Europe. But when they at last decided to move to Europe for good, they took Aldo along...
...Canadian, Ginger Coffey is a swiftly self-unmade man. Jobless, he spends the $600 his wife Veronica had set aside for return passage to Ireland. When he finally confesses this, Veronica sobs, slams and locks the bedroom door and leaves Ginger to warm his imagination on two quarts of beer. Armed with false courage and the recommendations of a cartoonist friend named Gerry Grosvenor, Ginger applies to the Montreal Tribune to become a Gentleman of the Press. But brrrr-tongued Managing Editor MacGregor, nicknamed Hitler by his staff, believes in starting everyone at the bottom, proofreading the galleys...
...reported the Labor Department this week. Unemployment dropped seasonally by 201,000-to 3,459,000-pushing the number of unemployed in the U.S. work force below the 5% barrier (to 4.9%) for the first time in a year. Even more encouraging, the chronic sore spot of unemployment-those jobless for 15 weeks or more-fell 300,000 to about 900,000 in May; nearly half of those now seeking work have been out of jobs less than five weeks. Matched with these heartening employment statistics was an improvement in another important indicator: after slipping for the last few months...