Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Stanford's prestigious premises, Strucinski put all that behind him. He affected a pipe and married a pretty English major. He worked hard, developed a particular interest in the Stanford library. Even after finishing his fellowship last year, with warm praise from Professor Stegner, Strucinski haunted the library...
...Government reckoning, a depressed area is one in which at least 6% of the workers are unemployed and the total has run at least 50% above the national average for four of the last five years. The U.S. has 19 major depressed areas and dozens of minor ones scattered from Washington to Maine, most of them concentrated in the industrial East. They account for more than half a million unemployed workers for whom recession is a year-round, inescapable fact even when the nation's economy is booming. Both parties introduced bills to aid depressed areas in the last...
...nation's pockets of economic blight are caused by the fact that industries that once provided the major payrolls have either left the area, collapsed or severely cut back their work force under the stress of technological change or competition from more efficient plants elsewhere. The textile industry has moved out of New England for the South's lower wages. In Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, automation in the coal mines and a national shift from coal to oil and gas have thrown thousands out of work. Modernization of the steel industry, abetted by a slump in steel...
They are narrated by Jim Malloy (who appeared in earlier novels), an O'Hara-like man who has been a reporter and pressagent and who, in middle age, is a successful novelist. In the first volume, The Girl on the Baggage Truck, he is a major character, a young publicity man who avoids, mostly by luck, becoming the pet poodle of an aging actress. Malloy is an observer in the next book, Imagine Kissing Pete, concerning an adulterous marriage that worked better than expected. There is a hint in this one of sentimentality, a quality to which the 20th...
West Berlin Concert (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). A tape of the New York Philharmonic during the recent German visit, with Conductor Leonard Bernstein lecturing on "The Universality of Beethoven's Music" and doubling as soloist in Beethoven's Concerto "No. I" in C Major...