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...Government analysts point out that the Soviet growth figures may be slightly inflated in order to create a festive atmosphere for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Furthermore, the Russians often include in their output figures the value of the semi-finished goods imported and only finished in Soviet factories. The Washington economists also point out that to boost the statistics this year the Kremlin is concentrating on completing plants already started - and getting them into production - rather than on new factories to redound to the economy's benefit later...
Though some jobs are opening up, for every Negro newly hired, large numbers are being let go from unskilled or semi-skilled employment because of automation, to flood the job market...
...Ruthenian rite is one of 17 semi-autonomous branches of Catholicism that acknowledge the Pope as head of the church but have their own non-Latin customs and liturgies. Ruthenian Catholics, for example, use a Byzantine liturgy identical to that followed by Eastern Orthodox Christians who are not in union with Rome, and which is traditionally celebrated in Hungarian, Greek or Old Slavonic. In the U.S., there are about 600,000 Eastern-rite Catholics. For many of them, their church is a God-given way of maintaining nostalgic ties with their homelands in Eastern Europe and Russia. But their peculiar...
...bring the Radical Education Project (REP) to Chicago and place it under the control of the national office. REP is the formal publishing and theoretical organ of SDS--one member calls it the radical equivalent of the RAND Corporation--and was set up in Ann Arbor as a semi-autonomous unit, for tax purposes...
DeGuglielmo took the action at the request of the Citizens Advisory Committee, a semi-autonomous consulting group composed of Cambridge business, institutional, and professional leaders. The CAC, which includes President Pusey and Howard Johnson, president of M.I.T., is considering recommending an urban renewal project for the entire area...