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...faculty adopted Dean May's proposal that exams and other academic work may be deferred until autumn...
...Hunt Hall yesterday afternoon, the faculty and students of the Graduate School of Design voted support for the demands endorsed by Monday's mass meeting. They adopted Dean May's proposal that exams and other academic work may be deferred until autumn...
Yesterday evening, the Divinity School faculty approved the request for optional exams and pass-fail credit. They also voted to hold a two-week recess this autumn prior to the November elections to allow students to work for anti-war candidates...
Faster Escalator. To make matters worse, union demands are colliding with falling profits and management determination to be tough. The hardest confrontation is shaping up for the autumn in the auto industry, where sales have been running 12% below a year ago. The United Auto Workers will be fighting not only for substantial wage raises and a faster-rising cost-of-living escalator but for extremely expensive pension increases. At present, a U.A.W. member can retire at age 60, after 30 years' employment, with a maximum pension of $400 a month. Union men are talking of retirement...
...once strong lira down to 650 to the dollar last week, its lowest level since 1952. The irony is that Italy's labor costs are lower than those of any other industrialized country, and rapidly rising productivity will offset much of the wage increases won in the autumn strikes. Yet to achieve the rate of investment necessary for the economy to continue to grow, the country needs a government capable of inspiring confidence. Until such a government comes to power, even Italian officials admit that the new rules will not stop the flow of lire across the border...