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...week's end the first 500 volunteers left Jerusalem for Negev villages. When trade union federation bosses voted to demand a 5% wage rise, Premier David Ben-Gurion delivered a slashing attack on them for blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird itself for a regime of austerity, self-denial and sacrifice...
Orangeade and Opium. The first subject Norodom took up with his people last week was foreign policy. Cambodia, he said, would join Nehru's neutralist bloc, and at the same time it would accept U.S. military aid to equip an army of 40,000. If this seemed a little contradictory, Norodom added without batting an eyelid: "With this aid we will maintain a strong army even if America and Russia shake hands tomorrow." His public murmured assent at their Premier's wisdom...
...Russian commitment to build and equip a technical institute in Rangoon...
...Yale affirmative team, debating in the studios of WGBH-TV, where judges watched in a separate conference room, consisted of Alex Seith, James Blue, and James Miller. They contended that a university had three responsibilities to its students: to provide intellectual and vocational training, and to equip them for their future roles in society...
Concluded the businessmen: the problem of Negro workers is no longer one of getting hired but of getting promoted. To that end, they urged Negroes to equip themselves for better jobs now open to them. Said RCA's David Sarnoff: "We have spent proportionately more time, effort and money seeking qualified Negro engineering graduates than we have had to spend to recruit young engineers in general . . . Negroes do not sufficiently seek technological careers...