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Citizens in Weston, Conn., argue over a school budget [June 8] that allows students to choose among 27 courses in foreign and ancient languages, while Chief Justice Warren Burger urges that prison inmates be taught to "read, write and do simple arithmetic...
...Laura Glynn of Hartford, Conn., and Elsie Monje of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who organize destitute peasants in Ecuador and, as a result, endure constant denunciations as "Communist agitators." Based in Quito, the nuns advise labor and peasant organizers and students. Just now they are obtaining medical aid for several hundred Andean Indians squatting on unused hilly farm land. More than 30 have been wounded by gunshots in repeated skirmishes with police and thugs hired by landowners, but local hospitals refuse to treat them...
...some companies the squeeze is already serious. Condec Corp. of Old Greenwich, Conn. (1980 sales: $275 million), is a leading supplier of parts for the U.S. Army's 155-mm Howitzer field gun, makes components for the cruise missile, and is the world's leading producer of industrial robots. In the past eight months, a lack of skilled labor has ballooned Condec's order backlog by 37% to $288 million. Says Condec Chairman Norman I. Schafler: "It has become virtually impossible to get any tool-and diemakers. Industry has consumed its pool of skills like a diminishing...
There will be hardly any pattern to the fares the travelers will pay: some charges will seem strangely high, others absurdly low. In New Haven, Conn., last week, bargain hunters snapped up promotional 75? tickets-a penny a mile-for New Air's inaugural flight to New York City's LaGuardia Airport. The fare will increase in stages to $32 by July...
...firm with 1980 revenues of $186.5 million; of a gunshot to the head, fired at point-blank range by an unknown assailant, as he got into his car after a regular weekly golf game; in Tulsa. The owner of World Jai Alai in Miami and former owner of Hartford (Conn.) Jai Alai, Wheeler had testified publicly about alleged underworld involvement in the sport...