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With ten more years of reconstruction work still ahead of them, Chauvel and his workmen have developed a deep respect for the men of the Middle Ages who originally built the church. Said a foreman last week: "Today we may be able to repair their work, but I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to build a cathedral from the ground...
Adults can even receive Harvard degrees by attending extension courses once a week--if they work long enough. One woman studied 28 years before she got hers. This June only one night-school degree, the 220th since the extension program began, will be conferred at Commencement. Its recipient, a foreman at the Industrial Rayon plant, has studied since...
Liquidation Week. Some 50 Huks descended on an isolated dairy farm near Antipolo, 20 miles from Manila, killed the American owners, John Hardie and his wife Irene, and their Australian foreman. Two days later, the Huks struck again. A force of 150 of them, dressed in stolen army uniforms and riding in army trucks, swooped down on Candaba, 48 miles north of Manila, seized the army post sacked the town, and shot 13 antiCommunists. Three days later, several hundred Huks attacked the busy Acoje chromite mines in mountainous Zambales province (where Magsaysay was born), killed six civilians and burned...
...Parker Pen Co. threw out the time clock at its Janesville, Wis. plant last week, told its 1,000 workers to fill in their own timecards and hand them to a foreman. The new system eliminates three or four minutes lost by each employee while waiting in line mornings and evenings in front of the time clock. Added President Kenneth Parker, the old time clock was an "unnecessary nuisance and a form of regimentation. We think the psychological effects will be good...
Some atom-bomb secrets came out-or partly out-last week. During the Manhattan spy trial (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confessed spy David Greenglass, who worked as a machine-shop foreman at Los Alamos, described sketchily the mechanism of the A-bomb used at Nagasaki. His testimony was not transcribed. But it was not suppressed entirely. The spies on trial could not be convicted without proof that they had given real and vital secrets to the Russians...