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...Cambridge City Council fought for more than two hours yesterday over the City's new budget -- the largest in its history -- and then gave the $30.5 million spending program final approval...
...mass resignation was just the latest painful symptom of the sickness that prevails in the nation's largest and least efficient public-school system. To service a student population of more than 1,000,000, and pay a teacher staff of 54,600, New York next year proposes to spend $1.1 billion-more than is spent by 26 states to operate their entire governments. The budget breaks down to an expenditure of about $1,000 a year per student, roughly $400 above the national average; teacher salaries are among the highest of large U.S. cities. Yet the results...
Prophetic Figure. Appropriately enough, contemporary interest in Luther is proportionate to his direct impact on Protestant Christianity. Of the world's 230 million Protestants, 74.5 million call themselves Lutherans. Although a truly universal church, Lutheranism is strongest in Germany, Scandinavia and the U.S., where it is the third largest Protestant segment (after the Baptists and the Methodists). Three branches of the faith account for most of the nation's 10 million Lutherans: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
There's One Catch. While the show was unfalteringly festive, the moods of the European showmen were mixed. Most optimistic were Italian manufacturers, whose 1966 sales were up 17% over 1965; this January, the Italians topped the same month a year ago by 27%. Fiat, by far the largest Italian automaker, sold 1,178,000 in 1966, an impressive increase of 231,567 in two years. In 1967, Fiat expects to top that by 8%, and considering its deal with Russia last year (TIME, May 6), long-term licensing prospects look impressive. No less hopeful are state-owned Alfa...
Referring to China, Reischauer stated that American policy should be more concerned with encouraging her re-entry into the world. He called China a "fading menace" and said that the United States should stop trying to "blackball" in the United Nations, the largest non-white country...