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Died. Charles Ruffin Hook, 83, longtime (1930-59) president and chairman of Armco Steel Corp., the nation's fourth-largest steel company (1962 sales: $918 million), who married the boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...
...plan calls for an eight-hour school day with no set course load. A student would finish a subject when his teacher was satisfied that he had mastered it, thereby allowing bright students to complete the normal four-year program in two or three years...
...days per year, and the Germans 33. Though the British work shorter hours, their 18 days of vacation and holidays per year is the shortest vacation period in Europe. The U.S. does not always provide a model for others to imitate. The Italians, for example, steadfastly oppose an American eight-hour work day; they complain that it would give them only an hour or so for lunch instead of the traditional three-hour midday siesta at home and, more important, would cut into the overtime they often pile up by staying at work until 8 or 9 in the evening...
...avocado green national palace, Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, explained what was in store for the country following his overthrow of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. He began by proclaiming Decree Law No. 1: subject-labor reform. Peralta promised equal pay for both Indians and whites, an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week, paid vacations, maternity leave, the right of farm labor to organize unions, "encouragement" of low-cost housing. And finally, said Peralta. "We intend to eradicate Communism, totally, from Guatemala...
...rivers run black over slate and shale. Its miners are a tough, hardy folk, for the equipment they use is outmoded, the coal they dig is of low quality and difficult to extract; a man's average output is only six-tenths of a ton in an eight-hour day, perhaps one-twentieth of a U.S. coal miner's production...