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...inferior job. The basic way to break the vicious circle, thinks Moynihan, is with money. "Beef up the family income," he says, "and everything else will follow in its train." Moynihan proposes two measures. The Federal Government, he says, should guarantee jobs by becoming the "employer of last resort" any time the national unemployment rate is above 3%. Merely putting the Post Office back on two residential deliveries a day, he points out, would give jobs to 50,000 men, while hundreds of thousands more could be usefully employed in providing such public services as work in hospitals or street...
McNaughton and his wife Sally, 46, were in the Blue Ridge resort area to pick up their son Theodore, 11, at a nearby camp. A former Harvard law professor and one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's "whiz kids" in 1961, McNaughton was to have been sworn in as Navy Secretary this week...
...yearning for nonviolence is as real as the yearning for love but, East or West, no religion has succeeded in establishing a society based on it. When trying to point to a really nonviolent community, anthropologists are usually forced to resort to the Arapesh of New Guinea or the Pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. The human impulse to violence cannot be completely denied or suppressed. When that is tried, the result is often an inner violence in man that can burst out all the more fiercely later. At times the U.S. displays a kind of false...
Some believe that, as American life gets fuller, the lure of gambling will diminish. People will find such challenge in their jobs, their families, their sports and their travels (so goes the argument) that it will not be necessary to resort to the artificial excitement of gambling, and that strange and beguiling itch will disappear...
...stock swap, Boise Cascade acquired Indianapolis' U.S. Land Inc., which thrives by building artificial lakes in northern Virginia or California's Mother Lode country, then selling the land around them for residential and resort use. With the purchase, Boise Cascade became the nation's most thoroughly integrated company in the housing field...