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Representatives at Saturday's eight-hour convention also elected nine officials to head the state chapter of the Federation this year. Schuck was elected chairman, and Clifford J. Stratton '75 is the new treasurer. The other new officials are students from other New England colleges which sent representatives to the convention...
TODAY IS May Day, the international revolutionary holiday. The origins of the celebration are somewhat obscure, but it may have started in 1886 in the United States with a national union drive for an eight-hour working...
Volcanic Eruption. Refreshed after an eight-hour sleep period, the astronauts are scheduled to start their second EVA at 5:03 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12. Heading southwest, they will drive nearly four miles to the base of South Massif and collect samples from a rock-strewn region that scientists believe was formed by a huge landslide from the upper slopes of that mountain billions of years ago. Scientists hope that the rocks consist largely of highland material far older than the relatively young rock of the valley floor. En route back to the LM, the astronauts will stop...
...Instead he called for a general muster, and the blacks were suddenly surrounded by thousands of whites. Later they were put off the ship at San Diego for "counsel." When the carrier returned from maneuvers to pick them up, the men refused to board. They staged a second eight-hour sitdown on the pier, lifting their arms in black power salutes. They were finally taken off the ship's rolls and sent before captain's masts (naval disciplinary hearings...
...Argentine history. Because he ruled during the postwar boom when the treasury contained a huge foreign-exchange surplus, Perón was able to raise wages and build hospitals, clinics and schools. He passed laws granting severance pay to discharged workers and extending social security; he also instituted the eight-hour day for farm laborers. Perón nationalized the British-owned Argentine railroads, retired the entire foreign debt, and by 1947 boasted a fivefold increase in industrial production during his regime. Fraudulent bookkeeping concealed the fact that his spending programs had driven Argentina to the verge of bankruptcy...