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...switchers mostly feel that their work has become a bore, a trap or a disillusionment. A 40-year-old company president wrote Columbia that he felt "wasted in working for material gain only." A department head in a large engineering firm complained that his job entailed "a continuous round of panics with little ultimate purpose or meaning." "My job was a boring, stale thing to me," said Mrs. Carolyn Sadow, one of 14 people who have been through the New Careers program...
...pamphlets were discovered early today by a Wakefield newsboy. They bore the heading "Why Kill LBJ?" and read "Because he is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans in Vietnam, forced to fight for their own lives in a futile war in which they do not believe. SOMEONE MUST KILL LBJ if democracy is to be restored in the U.S." The name of the organization was at the bottom...
...knows what the man who founded Duluth, Minn., in 1679 looked like. Archives reveal little more than that he was a French voyageur named Daniel Greysolon, bore the title of Sieur Du Luth, served as foot captain in the Royal Guard, and became a friend of the Sioux Indians. To give him more substance, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, 74, was asked to make a bronze of Du Luth. "Find a younger man," advised the sculptor...
...sped up, slowed down, and sped up again; if the orchestra had followed his tempi exactly, the effect would have been even worse. The timpani solo, which a timpanist friend assures me couldn't have been too loud, was-and the movement as a whole was a gigantic bore...
...letter bore no date-only "Havana, Year of Agriculture."* It was signed by Argentine-born Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Castro's longtime No. 2 man, who has been missing for seven months after a bitter doctrinal dispute with the dictator; Che preferred a hardline, Peking-style Communism, Castro the softer, Moscow variety (TIME cover, Oct. 8). Two weeks ago, Castro promised a document that would explain Che's absence and his status. Now before 5,000 Cubans in Havana's Chaplin Theater, Castro said that Che gave him the letter last April, asking him to read it publicly...