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...Filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board that the West Coast affiliate of the Seafarers' International Union ships "lily-white crews and is reluctant to assign Negroes jobs above steward level...
...half!" At the Los Angeles convention, saddlesore Roncalio was vice chairman of the Wyoming delegation that gave all of its 15 votes to Jack-and put him over the top for the nomination. In the general election, Teddy fared worse: n Western states went for Nixon. But regional Democrats assign no blame to Teddy: had it not been for him, they say, Jack Kennedy might have been shut...
Rinker well knows that English teaching can be impossibly hard. The "normal" high school teaching load is 125 to 150 pupils a day. If a teacher assigns 125 pupils one 500-word essay a week, allowing 15 minutes apiece to correct them, he faces more than 30 hours of extra work. (One result is that some teachers assign no essays, and high schools are graduating students who never wrote a single composition in four years.) Nonetheless, Rinker thinks that the deeper problem is simply incompetence; few teachers, for example, read enough, and many cannot write with style and clarity...
...coffee is the biggest commodity in world trade. With overproduction and massive stockpiles threatening to collapse coffee prices, delegates agreed that something had to be done. Under the prodding of the U.S. delegation, they finally reached an agreement last week to establish a worldwide Coffee Council, which will assign tight export quotas to producing nations based on their current level of exports. But the quotas will be revised as the demand for various types of coffee fluctuates-a victory for the Africans...
...church-sponsored groups, the custom has been to demand a "founder's fee," which means the tenant has to pay a proportionate share of the building cost of the entire project. In some cases, he also has to agree to remain in the project for life, and to assign the community all personal assets in exchange for permanent care until death (many oldsters find this humiliating and restrictive of their freedom of choice...