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...avid reader of TIME, and also one of the "angry school officials" who "snort" replies to the accusations of "bright-eyed kids," I found your Sept. 15 article concerning the high schools of Downey to be most revealing. Now I know, firsthand, why I shall never cancel my subscription to your magazine: What other publication offers so much entertaining reading without the intrusion of factual and accurate reporting...
...Shah studied the returns and called a press conference. "I am not satisfied with these elections," he said bluntly. "If the nation wants me to cancel them, despite the law and the limits of my constitutional power, I will do so." But he held out the hope that the Majlis would reform itself by "changing the electoral law to match conditions in democratic countries." A day later, Premier Eghbal motored to Saadabad Palace and turned in his resignation. At week's end it still lay on the desk of the Shah, who pondered how to soothe a popular unrest...
...Castro's Cuba. The consulate issues 200 visas a day, but the demand is so great that applicants now must wait until next May even to get appointments for interviews. The drain on Cuba's supply of trained men-engineers, economists, doctors-last week persuaded Castro to cancel all existing exit permits. Henceforth, those who want to leave home must fill out an elaborately detailed questionnaire. Its aim was plain: to keep tab on those who are getting out and to provide a handy list of their assets in case they do not come back...
...provided for a reduction in weekly working hours from 48 to 44 and a minimum monthly pay rise of 50 shillings ($7). The rebels want a minimum pay rise of ?4 ($11.20) per month. The Queen Mary and the Canadian Pacific Co.'s Empress of Britain had to cancel their voyages, stranding 3,000 passengers-mostly U.S. tourists. In all, 80 British and Commonwealth ships had to cancel out, and ferry service across the Channel was halted. Three British ships were tied up in the Great Lakes. Cunard and Canadian Pacific set up emergency airlifts to shuttle the stranded...
...course everyone with any sense knows what a terribly pro-Republican rag you are, and so I shouldn't subscribe to you at all. I do, in fact, cancel my subscription regularly, but you have such good writers I can't resist...