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...request, a task force of economists headed by M.I.T. Professor Paul Samuelson, one of Kennedy's most trusted counselors, delivered a thick report which warned that 1) the slump is bad, and 2) it could very easily grow worse, with unemployment topping the post-World War II peak of 7½% Among other things, it urged fat federal unemployment subsidies to guarantee every jobless worker at least 50% of his wages for 39 weeks; big Government spending programs for health, welfare, urban renewal, school buildings and teachers' salaries; more construction of highways, post offices, military bases, etc. Cost...
...cherries from neighborhood orchards. Meals at home were varied and imaginative-"Mother was reputed to be a great cook''-but Ancel was not home much. Bright but unbridled, he disliked school, at ten spent three days camping with two young friends on the slopes of nearby Grizzly Peak. "We didn't see a solitary soul." says Keys. "Just hiked and ate. Three breakfasts a day-Aunt Jemima pancakes, dried prunes and bacon. Not too bad a diet. You can eat anything for a few days...
...Ph.D. later. Keys headed for Europe on a National Research Fellowship and began a seven-year odyssey that took him to Copenhagen to study under Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist August Krogh, to Cambridge University for another degree, to Harvard for human-fatigue experiments, and to an 18,000-ft. peak in the Chilean Andes for high-altitude studies of miners. Then he landed at the Mayo Clinic, where he found himself "in a real medical environment" for the first time. Dr. Keys also found his wife-to-be, Margaret Haney, when he interviewed-and hired-her for a medical technologist...
...rise, bringing an automatic 2?-per-hr. cost-of-living wage increase for some 225,000 U.S. workers, chiefly in the meat-packing and aircraft-missile industries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that a jump in food prices pushed the cost of living to a new peak in November of 127.4 (1947-49 = 100), up from 127.3. It was the first food price increase in November since...
...past, some hot tips have put the tippers in hot water. Two years ago Speculator Louis Wolfson, then chief stockholder in American Motors Corp., announced that he was selling his American Motors stock because he thought it had reached its peak. Actually, he had already sold out, and sold short, hoping the stock would drop, making him additional profits. SEC quickly stepped in and froze his holdings. Result: when the stock rose instead of dropping, Wolfson lost heavily...