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...aimed at unemployment," Wilson insisted, "but at redeployment"-releasing workers from less critical industries for jobs in export or other important fields (see WORLD BUSINESS). By any name, it sounded to the T.U.C. brothers like joblessness (which climbed by 52,558, to 316,714, in the last four-week period), and a groan rumbled through the old Blackpool opera house. Wilson insisted on compliance with the wage standstill. "We have taken action," he said. "Now we have the right to ask for your free and willing assent to what the national interest requires...
...four-week course, which has been oversubscribed each year, combines the study of largely staff-written textbooks and probing seminars on hypothetical trial problems. In the primary text, The State Trial Judge's Book, a budding jurist is taught such crucial arts as how to determine whether evidence is relevant as well as admissible under the ever more complex rules of exclusion. As for deportment: "He should accept this change [from lawyer to judge] modestly, graciously and with dignity. He is not required to be a jolly good fellow nor to depreciate himself over his new lot." Judges...
With the rise of the 35-hour week and four-week vacations, millionaires also detect tempting prospects in recreation. Among them: marinas and vacation homes. The growth of leisure and the youth market will also strengthen businesses involved with education, including secretarial schools and accounting schools. Oakland Lawyer Michael Rafton tapped that market: In 1960 he put up $31,000 to buy a struggling company that had been making big cargo boxes, switched it into the manufacture of portable classrooms, and last year sold out at a huge profit. The demand for time-saving conveniences can be turned into wealth...
Upton, Griswold, and the rest of the Yale line will be up against Harvard goalie Nat Bowditch, who is making the final start of his three-year varsity career. Bowditch, who showed the rust of his four-week layoff when he let in four Brown goals, should be ready to return to the form that won him second team All-Ivy honors last year...
...better than fourth in the conference, and M.S.U.'s own publicity people handed out releases suggesting that the Spartans would "have difficulty bettering last year's 4-5 record." Duffy's answer was to send a personal postcard to every member of his team, outlining a four-week program of good food and exercise that they were to complete before reporting for practice...