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...electronic eavesdropping last week. The cut and thrust of parliamentary debate has often been touted as the best show in town. Winston Churchill was known to prepare for Commons debate by rehearsing one-liners in his bath. Until last week, however, the audience was limited to the lucky few whose passes admitted them to a cramped and remote area of the House of Commons known as "the Strangers' Gallery." Deciding it was time to pillory each other more publicly, the M.P.s recently voted to permit live radio broadcasts of their floor debates during a four-week experiment. Thus last...
High Costs. Their protests are proving expensive. A four-week walkout by California physicians, which ended last week after the state legislature pledged to work toward a permanent solution of the malpractice mess, cost San Francisco Bay Area hospitals an estimated $2.5 million in lost charges, hit 4,500 furloughed hospital workers for $12 million in lost pay. The New York action could be even more costly. Some of the hardest-hit hospitals have already begun laying off employees. Dr. John Connorton, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, said that 25 voluntary hospitals, half of them...
...plan much like the September 7 one took third last week in a student opinion poll taken by the Educational Resources Group that showed that more than half the 2000 sampled favored a plan with an earlier start and close and exams before a four-week vacation...
...proposal and a student proposal that would have a school year running from August 30 to May 14 with a four-week Christmas vacation will be discussed at the Faculty Council meeting on Wednesday...
...compared to 76.5 million for the crop year of 1973-74. "Unfair competition!" cried Maffre-Baugé. "Italian wine production is a mess like everything else in that country. They can change white into red, add chemicals and call it wine." Last month the French government ordered a four-week boycott of Italian wine. Italy protested to the Common Market in Brussels, charging France with violating the principle of free circulation of goods...