Word: labor
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...Villagers built 1,600 new schoolrooms during the first half of 1966, well ahead of schedule. Peasants supplied labor, while lumber and cement came from AID and the Vietnamese government. Manning 6,400 hamlet schools are 7,200 teachers, including 3,400 who completed training in 1966. Hamlet schools can now provide elementary education for 540,000 youngsters. - Fighting disease are 42 free-world medical teams, including Cuban refugee doctors and medical personnel from 13 other nations; 153 American doctors took furloughs from their private practices for two-month voluntary stints with Project Viet Nam; West Germany has sent...
...November, Mrs. Heckler must run against Democrat Patrick Henry Harrington, 46, a tough labor lawyer with three terms on the Bristol County board of commissioners behind him. Because of redistricting, the Tenth District now has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Peggy Heckler will need every ounce of her vigor to hold the constituency for the Republican Party...
...Norwegian farmer lost in the big city. In his first term as Governor of Minne sota, Rolvaag seemed so ineffectual that an opinion poll last February gave him the unqualified approval of only 9% of the voters. In June he was summarily rejected even by his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which chose Lieut. Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith, 37, as its gubernatorial candidate. Last week, nonetheless, Rolvaag won the D.F.L. nomination for another term by a landslide...
...other actions, the Congress: - Passed, in the Senate, and sent to the President a bill raising the minimum wage for some 30 million workers to $1.40 an hour next February and to $1.60 a year later. Product of long wrangling between Government and organized labor, the bill also extends coverage to some 8,000,000 more employees, notably migratory farm workers. >Slashed, in the House Appropriations Committee, $295 million from the $3.38 billion foreign aid bill requested by the President. In the bill reported out of committee, $200 million was cut from economic aid requests and $95 million from military...
...awful milieu of the British working class in the industrial landscape of the Tyneside. A feast for the Cotters is one chicken in the pot, brought to the boil in saltless water and garnished with some dreadful cabbage; the local preoccupations are football pools, the union and the Labor Party, which replaced (but not satisfactorily) the chapel. The family Bible of the Cotter tribe, awash with tea and sympathetic misery, seems to be those old socialist classics-Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Lenin...