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...spare time, Mrs. Ruth Kasper of Pennside, Pa., managed to collect 800 Ibs. of pretzels. In Dubuque, Iowa, Businessman John Walsh and eleven friends in five weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their...
...railroad clerk, Mitterrand climbed to prominence through sheer brilliance and an inborn political knack for being all things to all people. Though his vest-pocket party, the left-of-center Democratic Socialist Union of the Resistance, has never amounted to much, his adaptability shoehorned him into no fewer than eleven revolving coalition Cabinets of the Fourth Republic. For at least two of his Cabinet stints, Mitterrand is given high marks...
Over from Ireland. During the first eleven months of 1965, 2,200,000 additional people have found employment (or have been sought out for it), the largest year-to-year increase since the Korean War buildup. Even so, the November work week was the longest (41.4 hours) in more than two decades, and average overtime (3.8 hours) came close to a record. Naturally, pay has risen with demand: workers in manufacturing earned $2.64 an hour in November v. $2.55 a year ago. Reports the National Industrial Conference Board...
After that, Woodward bounced from paper to paper; but in 1959, after Jock Whitney bought the Trib, he was invited back. He was not exactly penitent. His first column began: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted eleven years ago . . ." When someone asked if he had any hard feelings about being fired, he replied: "Time wounds all heels...
...freshmen class voted yesterday for eleven representatives to the Jubilee committee. 775 of 1200 freshmen cast their ballot...