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Presents the performance ratings of the legislators of the various states in the U.S. Factors taken into account by the U.S. Senate include mass transportation, youth conservation, test ban treaty, vocational educational, wheat sales, oil depletion, tax cut, civil rights act, poverty program, foreign loan rates, hospital care for the aged and reapportionment; Factors for the U.S. House include rules committee, public works, debt ceiling, criminal justice, tax cut, wheat sales, civil rights, international development, foreign aid, poverty program, reapportionment and surplus sales; Tabulation of the votes polled by the legislators based on the above mentioned factors.

Focuses on issues of road safety taken up by the federal government of the United States. Views that the U.S. Department of Commerce is required to set standards for road safety but it doesn't have any enforcement authority; General Services Administration of the U.S. along with the representatives of other government agencies and experts, has set out to lay out safety standards for passenger vehicles; Likelihood of stronger federal action in the tire field; Comments that earlier efforts to set minimum safety standards have been upset by the auto and rubber manufacturing industries; Emphasis on tire specifications which must be met by suppliers of tires for the motor vehicles; Proposals for tires to be rated according to government standards of safety, endurance, general quality and construction.

Discusses the compensation package of executives in the U.S. Survey of multimillion corporations; Salary bracket of chief executive officers; Ways to measure the job performance of individual executives.

Talks about the lack of a minimum standard of competence of young Americans shown on the Armed Forces Qualification Test in the U.S. Reasons for the increasing rate of rejection in the Armed Forces Qualification; Components of the written test; Concerns of the government over the facts about draft rejections and its efforts to prompt correction of educational deficiencies.

Presents the general characteristics associated with good job performance of an employee in the U.S. Ability of an employee to get along with people in the working environment; Cooperative and emotionally stable worker; Cognizant of job responsibilities and has good personal life as an employee.

Discusses the causes of low labor productivity in the United States during the 1960s. Decline in employee productivity; Unions' concern with setting maximums for their production workers rather than in establishing a minimum fair day's work for a fair day's pay; Causes of laziness; Prevalence of low employee productivity due to the toleration of it.