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Since American manpower in South Viet Nam has been engaged most spectacularly with the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese regulars in the northern half of the country, the daily headlines tend to overlook another sprawling sector of the war: the Mekong Delta below Saigon. In terms of bullets fired and casualties recorded, the Delta is a good deal quieter than it was two years ago. But it has hardly lost its importance...
Apart from the teen-age sector, employment is holding firm. In May, 73.7 million Americans were working, up 659,000 from April. The situation was particularly firm for the two most important groups in the job market: unemployment remained at a steady low of 2.4% among adult men and 1.8% among heads of families. Skilled workers have no trouble finding work, but employers have plenty of trouble finding them. Going begging are positions for lathe operators, carpenters, shipfitters. Among cities classified by the Government as having the tightest labor markets are Atlanta, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Rochester. Demand for this month...
...businessmen. Throughout the five-year-long expansion of U.S. business, Americans have sometimes exaggerated the problems confronting the economy. This has partly been a result of the psychological inability of people to believe that good times can last indefinitely. Men like Roche recall that whenever one important sector of the economy has flagged, several other major industries-electronics, color TV, aerospace-have made up the difference by spurting...
...legislatures. The governors pleaded for liberal legislation, and the legislatures characteristically did nothing. As a result, by 1955 state spending on education (largest item in most state budgets), welfare, and public health was lagging behind the postwar growth in the cost of living and the size of the private sector. In the last ten years, the states have been making up this lost ground. Most notably, expenditures on education have more than doubled as costs rose and the postwar baby boom came...
...help schools and hospitals, and have given $1,500,000 for a science and technology museum in Bombay. Perhaps they are motivated by a British business rule they were mostly too young to really remember but wise enough to apply to their modern India. Says Arvind Mafatlal: "The private sector can only survive if it proves its value to society...