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Even with Trodden's cooperation the earliest the courts could render a decision would be mid-October. If the decision is favorable, the resolution still would face a tangle of administrative procedures before it can go on the ballot...
...private industry to assure that meaningful work is available. > Concentration on the backlog of employment needs in parks, streets, slums, countryside, schools, colleges, libraries and hospitals. The program should have as its first goal putting at least 1,000,000 of the unemployed into productive work at the earliest possible moment. > The program must provide meaningful jobs-not dead-end, make-work projects...
...blocks, surrounded by sixteen paintings of trees and weird mythological creatures. Dr. Jao Tsung-yi, professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, believes it is "the most valuable find in the history of Chinese archaeology." His reasons: the Ch'u Silk Manuscript is the earliest and largest of its kind, and the larger the manuscript the easier it is to decipher unknown characters in context with known characters. In addition, says Dr. Jao, "it is a very important astrological and astronomical record. It confirms and adds to many legendary records of the ancient Chinese classics...
...tempestuous have the students proved in their earliest reconfinement to the classroom that the present interval is being designated a transitional period of "struggle," preliminary to the full-scale resumption of school in the fall. For the time being, by Mao's edict, all students are expected to engage in factory work, farming and military affairs, and also consume heavy doses of the works of Mao; in those primary and secondary schools that are open, instruction is limited to one to two hours of morning classes, during which pupils read, chant, sing and dance the messages of Chairman...
Died. Howard Black, retired executive vice president of Time Inc., who signed on in 1924 as one of TIME'S earliest advertising salesmen, from 1937 to 1941 presided over the fantastic growth of infant LIFE'S ad lineage revenues, then as longtime (1949-62) executive vice president was involved with all Time Inc. publishing operations, most notably the birth of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1953; after a long illness; in Greenwich, Conn...