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...fretted. Inside, after some 60 other New York halls and hotels had refused them talking room, the top leadership of the U.S. Communist party-its "surface" membership down to about 8,500 from 80,000 in 1944-was holding its first national convention since 1950. Prime purpose of the four-day, closed-door session: to select a new national committee and to heal the three-way split in party ranks that had followed Moscow's "downgrading" of Stalin, its "upgrading" of Stalin, and the brutal intervention in Hungary...
...names and pioneering feats as the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Amos 'n' Andy, Graham MacNamee and the first short-wave relay from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie and the NBC staff chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs...
...exams. In 1953 Allahabad students raided the railway station, sabotaged trains, fired public buildings. Last year, when eight students were dismissed after another riot, the rest of the student body caused so much trouble that the university closed for a month. In the state of Bihar students launched a four-day reign of terror because the State Transport Authority refused to grant them special bus fares. They hurled bricks at police, raided a bank, burned the national flag. When the police finally opened fire, five people were killed. This fall more riots started at Aligarh, resulted in 24 deaths...
...Committee headquarters in Washington. Only twice did Washington's Republican strategists prompt him on major matters: once to suggest that he get a little rougher with Adlai Stevenson, once to urge him to drop his valid point that free-enterprise technological advances will one day lead to a four-day work week in the U.S. It was a tough point to get across, and some Administration and G.O.P. brasshats thought it sounded like a commitment by the Eisenhower Administration to come up with a compulsory four-day week...
...great majority of retailers contend that seven-day selling is indefensible in the face of nationwide pressure for a four-day week. While small businessmen say they are forced to open Sundays to meet low-margin chain-store competition, many chain operators have found that Sunday volume has become too big to jettison. A big Arkansas supermarket operator who returned to the six-day week found that receipts dropped 40%. In Indianapolis, after agreeing to close on Sundays, the Kroger chain was forced to reopen nine of its 16 markets...