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Hughes commended the press on their fair reporting of the March, but claimed that "even as high-level a newspaper as the Globe" had partially distorted it by printing only pictures of youths flying Viet Cong flags during the demonstration In truth, he maintained, those who carried the banners were "cold-shouldered" by the thousands of more moderate marchers...
...completed four years as president of Chicago's mattress-making Sealy Inc., where he boosted annual sales from $56 million to $81 million. As he saw it, Scripto's problem was divided into two parts. First he concentrated on management, reshaped divisions, reshuffled executives, created several new high-level posts and took over personal responsibility for the company's marketing programs. Next, he turned his attention to the company's products...
Joey Robinson, a spoiled poet who has become a high-level Manhattan publicist, returns to Pennsylvania for a weekend on his mother's farm. With him are his second wife Peggy and Richard, her 11-year-old son. While Joey mows the unkempt fields, the two women guardedly, and then unguardedly, spar over him, a prize that neither of them seems to want as much as they want simply to contest for its possession. The tug of war is academic anyway...
Johnson's only real news was that the Administration had finally decided to orbit a fully equipped, $1.5 billion manned space laboratory by late 1968 (see SCIENCE). He went out of his way to soothe Soviet suspicion of such militarily useful hardware, promised to invite a "very high-level" Russian scientist to witness the launching of Gemini 6 in October. Said Johnson: "Our American dream for outer space is a dream of peace and a dream of friendly cooperation among all of the nations of the earth. We believe the heavens belong to the people of every country...
...early age (ten), sending the brightest through the rigorous, classics-oriented Gymnasium and on to the university; the rest attend the Mittelschule or the less exacting Volkschule, both roughly equivalent to American junior high schools. Currently, less than 7% of German youths enter the Gymnasium; in France, by comparison, almost 13% attend the equivalent lycée. Many wonder whether so small a number of high-level graduates can provide the intellectual skills to keep Germany's vaunted "economic miracle...