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Dates: during 1970-1970
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JESSE JACKSON'S efforts through Operation Breadbasket provide one approach and one philosophy for change. Here are three other strategies from eloquent and thoughtful black spokesmen for different elements of the increasingly local, increasingly specialized black struggle. TIME Correspondent Wallace Terry interviewed the three men, whose views span the spectrum. They were...
...nation's factories and offices. Late last year, productivity in the private nonfarm area declined slightly and that aggravated inflation. Reason: when productivity falls while wages rise, businessmen have to increase prices to cover costs. Inefficiency is not only impinging on production but also on the actual span of life in the U.S. Inefficiencies in the medical system have contributed to a decline in the life expectancy of the average American at birth, from 70.8 years in 1967 to 70.4 years...
Blue Grass songs span the gamut of human emotion. From the melancholy love ballads so beloved in American popular music, Blue Grass stretches to deal with love from home and family; the life of the soil: the chronicling of great events in ballad form (e.g., "White House Blues," a song about the death of McKinley); the perils of such diverse occupations as truck driving, horse racing, railroading, mining, soldiering, and crime of all types; loneliness; the joy and humor of living and the pathos that goes along with it. The range of expression in Bill Monroe's songs and music...
Best of all, Bynum says, there would be no foreseeable shortage of materials for the improved roads. Combined with asphalt, the old tires and bottles disposed of in 1970 could pave a freeway that would span the U.S. 23 times...
Semantic Fog. The closest thing to a Nixon Administration definition of recession is the "adjectival" standard advanced by McCracken: a recession is "a substantial and broadly based decline in business activity that runs for a considerable span of time." Presumably using some such criteria, Arthur Burns, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee two weeks ago that we do not have a recession and I do not think we are going to have it." A the same hearing, Burns and McCracken conceded that U.S. production is dropping and will probably remain flat...