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...against a firm deadline: April 1, when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under which states qualify for their lion's share of this tax, Mitchell hopes to lengthen coverage to a uniform 30 weeks at half pay for the average...
Tommy's only trouble is that he does not go to school. His parents, Otto Kral, farmer-mathematician, and his wife Mary belong to the Council for Basic Education, whose members argue, often in luxuriantly polemical terms, that much of U.S. education is rotten with soft courses and "life adjustment" theories. After Tommy's first-grade year at the Lakeland-Afton public elementary school-where he got instruction in such matters as "language arts and social studies, whatever that means," Mary Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff...
Besides many technical details about the thalamus, the Boston researchers have learned a surprising, basic fact: thalamotomy (as the operation is called) works exactly opposite to lobotomy-it relieves the pain itself, but not the reactions of anxiety, suffering and fear of death...
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27--David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, talked with enthusiasm today about workers spending less time in mills. But he said the USW policy makers must decide if reduced work schedules will be an issue in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel firms...
...were not singled out to work under the auspices of the IGY funds voted by Congress. To create a distinction between IGY scientists and non-IGY scientists would, of course, be artificial for on most projects the source of the funds was merely an idle afterthought. In fact, the basic contribution to the satellite program--the on-the-spot recording of data--was made by thousands of unpaid amateurs organized into "Moonwatch" teams...