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...Council of Federated Organizations has begun a drive to recruit 100 more volunteers to teach a three-week session in Mississippi Freedom Schools, beginning Aug. 2. The new recruits will work in communities now without Freedom Schools...
...exporters so that they can sell U.S. cotton competitively at the world price. But U.S. textile manufacturers have been complaining that foreign textile makers can thus buy U.S. cotton cheaper than they can-and the Government has now devised still an other subsidy to meet their complaints. Beginning Aug. 1, it will drop the farmers' support price 2½? to 30?, automatically lowering the subsidy to exporters by 2½. At the same time it will grant U.S. manufacturers a new subsidy of 6½? a lb. so that they will be able to buy U.S. cotton...
...wages and working conditions not only of the automobile industry's 565,000 blue-collar employees but of millions of other industrial workers, whose new contracts will be strongly influenced by Detroit's pattern. Should the negotiators fail to close a deal by the deadline on Aug. 31-when the '65 models will be rolling out-a strike could brake the industry's three-year boom and dent the whole economy. Noting that the auto companies are enjoying "fantastic" profits, the union figures this is a good year to step up to the higher-priced field...
BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. The 14th National Print Exhibition shows 165 examples of what U.S. printmakers have pursued during the past year (through Aug. 16), while Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman's collection of postimpressionists, on loan to the museum, features a room devoted solely to Cézanne. Through...
...tack out into Long Island Sound for the first shakedown cruises. Next week comes the initial "command performance" at the New York Yacht Club's spring regatta. All through the long summer the club's selection committee will hold preliminary trials leading up to the finals beginning Aug. 17. It is far too early for yachtsmen to talk about a favorite for the Cup defense off Newport on Sept. 15. But the odds favor the new boats. Only once in the past has an older boat won out. And that was Weatherly, with Bus Mosbacher doing the sailing...