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Construction is to begin in Arlington National Cemetery this autumn on the fourth Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - to be dedicated to the U.S. fighting men who have fallen in Viet...
...Socialist component. Conceivably there may be no agreement on a coalition at all, and perhaps Parliament will be dissolved again, and yet another election held. Meantime, wage negotiations for 5,000,000 workers in 57 industries are scheduled before year's end, raising the prospect of another autumn of strikes -just like the one that marked the beginning of Italy's current economic slide...
...long summer twilight of Cape Cod. Jane Wilson is fascinated by the "weight of the sky" in Iowa. Other painters look ever more closely around them. Alan Gussow discerns a universe in Atlantic tidal pools; in a bunch of wild flowers, Ann Poor sees Maine's rocky land, autumn, perfection...
...Portland, Ore., fabric-store chain, watches women's dresses. "In a recession, women buy sportswear or no clothes at all," he says. "A healthy dress business means that women expect their husbands to take them out more." Women's secondhand dress shops provide another indicator. Last autumn the clothes on the racks of some shops were three years old; women were hanging on to their old fashions instead of buying more recent ones-a clear sign of hard times. Lately there has been a turnaround, as women rush to sell old outfits and buy new ones...
Combining theory and practice proved easier in the six science departments than in the seven arts departments, according to Tang. In the department of Chinese literature, he says, students charged that the professors had created "a hotbed for the restoration of capitalism." Throughout the autumn of 1969, while the university remained closed, "struggle, criticism and transformation" sessions were held because the professors "did not see society as a factory and kept divorcing the students from the masses." As one pigtailed coed put it: "We were wearing new shoes, but still going on the old road...