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...greatest period of industrial peace since the end of World War II." The number of workers involved in strikes was a postwar low of 621,000 (out of an employed work force of 60 million); time lost because of strikes was 6,720,000 man-days, or only one-tenth of 1% of all the hours worked by nonagricultural, nongovernmental labor...
Always on Keel. The lifting will be slow and cautious. The 308 massive jacks will move less than one-tenth of an inch at a time. Each time the jacks have raised the mass about one foot, precast concrete pillars will be placed to take the weight. In 29 months, if all goes well, the temple with its giant figures and the rock enclosing its inner rooms will rise 203 ft., safely above the water. It will then be set into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front...
...first time since World War II, prices in the U.S. are generally holding steady during a period of recovery. In some cases (food, specialized steel products, paper), prices are even falling-enough so that last week the Labor Department announced that the Consumer Price Index had dropped one-tenth of 1% in May. But the price line would not hold for long in the face of major wage hikes. With an eye on Detroit, President Kennedy and his economic advisers have emphasized that the Administration would look unkindly on inflationary labor settlements. And a month ago, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg...
...newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull...
...centuries, caste-bound Britain regarded higher learning as a rite of the rich and a privilege of the few. Even by 1945, only one-tenth of 1% of the population attended universities-mainly the well born, who "went up" to Oxford and Cambridge and on to the "Establishment" that runs English culture and politics. But in 1948 came a dramatic change: for any poor youngster with a rich mind, Britain's welfare state promised a free university education through a vast system of scholarships. "For the first time," recalls Eton's Headmaster Robert Birley, "the working class realized...