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...five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled, we can hear the sound of our heartbeat...
...time of testing: the growing up of all those postwar babies who were born in fecund 1946 and are coming of age to enter the labor force (only 40% will go on to college). "Already our unemployment is concentrated among the 18-and i g-year-olds, and a tidal wave of them will hit us in 1964 and 1965," says Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board. The number of new workers entering the labor force will soar from 1,200,000 in the last year to 2,500,000 next year...
...interview Leighton explained that he disapproved of the "tidal wave" rise in college enrollments. He said that students were not under a moral obligation to attend college unless their families had made financial sacrifices to send them...
...tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave that was felt for miles...
...Forward rose to great influence on the tidal waves of immigrants that broke over New York before and just after World War I. By 1918, it was strong enough to help break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and elect a Socialist, Meyer London, to the U.S. Congress. It encouraged and often led the organized movement of garment workers out of the city's sweatshops and into the I.L.G.W.U. In 1922 it reached a circulation of 225,000. But already the future had begun to close in. Restrictive new immigration quotas, enacted in the 1920s, dammed...