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...Right-to-work laws forbid union membership as a condition of employment, thus outlaw union shops, thereby go one step beyond the federal Taft-Hartley Act's no-closed-shop provision. Eighteen states, mostly Southern and Midwestern, already have R.T.W. laws...
...EIGHTEEN months ago (April i, L. 1957), in a cover story on Air Force Missileman Bernard Schriever, TIME reported that Air Force scientists con sidered sending an unmanned rocket to the moon a worthwhile project, and estimated that they could be ready to shoot in 1 8 months. Last week tireless, punctual Major General Schriever and his men sent their rocket - Pioneer -far out into space. For the story of their hopes, disappointments and accomplishments, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Eighteen months ago a Manhattan art dealer showed Director Heil the marble bust, which Heil from his days as a fellow of the Institute of Art History in Florence readily identified as a smaller copy of Cellini's bronze bust of Cosimo in the National Museum. Back in San Francisco, Dr. Heil traced references to such a work in the Cellini literature, built up documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence...
...Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...
...Eighteen hours after flying back to Washington, the President was saying goodbye to another good-will ambassador, headed for Central America: his younger brother, Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University and an experienced hand in Latin American affairs...