Unemployed White Collar Pros Face Job Market Slump
The report notes rising white collar unemployment nationally with 1,134,000 workers jobless in August, while Lorain County shows no trend of such layoffs. Engineers and scientists face scarce openings amid defense cuts, with many out of work beyond 15 weeks and some in Los Angeles exhausting 26 weeks of benefits.
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Washington
UPI
Dunstan Hayden
Hayden
BIS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Orce
Lorain County
Ohio Bureau of Employment Services
U.S
J. Paul Cali
U.S. Bureau of Standards
Labor Department
Los Angeles
Economic downturn whooks middle class as layoff wave hits
The piece traces hardship among once affluent households as layoffs rise across fields from teaching to advertising. A rocket engineer recounts trimming luxuries while wives seek jobs, and Apollo program cuts worsen the mood. Space industry layoffs warn of broader unemployment fears.
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Space Agency
Hayden
Reds Blow Up Bridge Trapping Cambodian Troops North of Phnom Penh
Communist forces blew up a bridge 50 miles north of Phnom Penh trapping a 5,000 man Cambodian task force and severing ground reinforcements. The unit suffered 27 dead and 163 wounded over six days as paratroopers tried to reach it and relieve Kompong Thom.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
South Vietnam
O'Reilly
Neak Sam
Kompong Thom
Sam
UPT
Vietnam War Sets Records for U.S. Military History
Parade Magazine lists at least ten records from the Vietnam War including the longest negotiations ongoing while fighting continues, the biggest wartime protest movements, broad opposition by retired military leaders, the greatest bomb tonnage, and the most American war correspondents killed in a single country. It notes 23 journalists lost and three American residents involved, marking new highs across conflicts.
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New York
UPI
United States
Parade Magazine
Vietnam
Auto experts favor mini skirts for traffic safety
Cleveland officials from the Cleveland Automobile Club argue the midi skirt creates hazards for pedestrians. Director Harold Cantlin says a midi lulls male drivers, while Mildred Gnau counters that noticing fashion could distract drivers.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Automobile Club
Harold T. Cantlin
Mildred Gnau
Hijacker stages tense 727 flight from Philadelphia to Havana
A young armed hijacker on an Allegheny Airlines 727 forced the 91 passengers to leave in Philadelphia then kept the crew hostage during the Havana leg. Captain John Harkin and flight crew described harrowing moments as the hijacker, who claimed to hate Jews, threatened to detonate a bomb rigged with a stopwatch and nitro. Cuban soldiers later detained the suspect after the plane returned to Miami.
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Charles FE. Taylor
Miami
UPI
Allegheny Airlines
Havana
Philadelphia
Evelyn Thornton
Boston
Pittsburgh
Cairo
John K. Harkin
Coraopolis
FBI
Harkin
Miss Thornton
Raymond Thomas
Hudson, N.H
John
Taylor
Egypt
Nixon to Visit Ireland After European Tour
President and Mrs. Nixon will end their European trip with a sentimental visit to Ireland at the invitation of President Ramon de Valera. They will tour the countryside linked to Nixon's maternal ancestor Thomas Milhous and review Paris peace talks with U.S. Ambassador Bruce and Deputy Habib during their October stay.
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Italy
Spain
Yugoslavia
England
Nixons
John Mulcahy
New York
Ireland
Chronicle-Telegram 1970 Lorain County daily newspaper notice
The Chronicle-Telegram lists its address at 2 East Avenue and publication details for September 20 1970. It notes a 15 cent Sunday edition and daily publication by Lorain County Printing & Publishing Co with carrier and mail subscription rates for Lorain County and nearby areas.
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Bates
Lorain
Sweden election race heads to a neck and neck finish
Polls show a tight contest between Olof Palme's Social Democrats and the non socialist opposition led by the Center Liberal and Conservative blocs. A last minute SIFO poll put opposition at 47.4 and Palme at 45.5, with 350 Riksdag seats at stake and many local council seats.
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Stockholm
UPI
Polisters
Olof Palme
Social Democrats
Sweden
Center Party
Liberals
Conservatives
Palme
Swedish Institute For Opinion Polls
SIFO
Riksdag
Rome marks freedom from papal rule centennial
Rome observed the centenary of the end of papal temporal power with parades and ceremonies as Bersaglieri veterans, bands, and wreath lays filled the city. Pope Paul VI urged conciliation toward the invasion’s legacy, noting the spiritual focus of the church.
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Rome
UPI
Italy
Emillio Colombe
Pope Paul VI
Pius X
Moon test to set off small explosions during Apollo 14 mission
Astronaut Edgar D Mitchell trains to detonate four high explosive grenades on the moon during Apollo 14. The radio controlled blasts, to be fired after the crew leaves the moon, aim to measure lunar vibrations and crust structure. NASA hopes findings could reveal buried ice near the surface.
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Washington
Edgar D. Mitchell
Alan B. Shepard, Jr
Moon
Stuart A. Roosa
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lunar
NASA
Chilean army urged to guard democracy under Frei
President Eduardo Frei told Chile's armed forces they must safeguard freedom and democracy as Allende faces a runoff in Congress with Alessandri. Frei stressed the military as guardians of democracy to prevent a Marxist shift, echoing Christian Democrat lines.
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Santiago
Chile
Eduardo Frei
Frei
Salvador Allende
Allende
Congress
Jorge Alessandri
Christian Democrat Party
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Scarsdale
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Minneapolis
William
University of Minnesota
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Elyria
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Chronicle-Telegram
Saigon
Nixon
Tuy Hoa
Frank Frosch
Midi
William Geiger
Norwalk
Route
Willard
the Chronicle-Telegram
East Avenue
Gunnar Hedlund
Social Democratic
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