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...school term earlier--will gain little favor from either the working or the pleasure-loving. The other possibility--and the easier one to put into effect--is the shortening of the three week spring reading period. A side issue is whether or not Thanksgiving should become a legal four-day weekend at the expense of a few days from the summer vacation. Such a sacrifice seems unnecessary since those who need the vacation seem to take it anyhow...
Hollywood's Grace Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier III announced that they will be married twice (in civil and Roman Catholic ceremonies) during a four-day fete, slated for an April 18th opening gun in Monaco. Among all sorts of folks on the guest list: hot-trumpeting Bandleader Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who announced that he and his cats will jive up one of the receptions...
...simple economic fact: there are some 800,000 unsold cars in dealers' showrooms now, v. only 463,000 at this time last year. General Motors and Ford have both trimmed production below 1955 levels (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week Chrysler announced that it was cutting back to a four-day week. Total auto output in January, said Ward's Reports, Inc., was about 614,000 units, almost 7% below January...
...them had been promised plenty of free time to do what they liked in the Communist city, but after arriving and being herded in small, carefully chaperoned groups through hour after hour of exhibits and lectures, few found more than an hour or two in their four-day visit to look up old friends. And when they got to their old neighborhoods, they were surrounded by neighborhood reception committees and could only cry "How are you?" to their families in public...
...part of community living, most Midwest directors are willing to turn handsprings. The Des Moines Art Center, which boasts three kitchens and a movie theater, gives the annual rose show and lends space to the African Violet Society. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts throws open its doors for a four-day Christmas show, last year had 21,673 visitors turn up to learn Christmas games, cooking and gift wrapping. Minneapolis' up-to-date Walker Art Center pulls in young and old alike with its jazz concerts. The museums eagerly share with the universities the task of art education...