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...four students, led by Roger W. Wallach '79 of the UFW, said they oppose labor law violations by Stevens, America's second largest textile manufacturer...
...frail fishing boat, packed with some 250 men, women and children fleeing Viet Nam, arrived off the east coast of Malaysia early last week. When it tried to dock at Pulau Bidong, an island that holds Malaysia's largest camp of Vietnamese refugees, police prevented the landing. The craft headed for the mainland, but villagers waded into the water and pushed the vessel away from the shore. In desperation, the refugees attempted to negotiate turbulent waters into the mouth of the Trengganu River. Catastrophe struck. The boat hit a sand bar and capsized. A few dozen aboard managed...
Some parents seek to avoid legal tangles by registering their children in correspondence schools. Among the largest are the Home Study Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1,100 elementary school children, 2,000 high school level) and Baltimore's Calvert School (4,500 elementary). Calvert's home instruction is said to have started when its headmaster made up lesson packets for children kept away from school by a whooping cough epidemic...
DIED. Stephen S. Gardner, 56, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1974-76); of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As the patrician chairman of Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors...
...time now for Kaplan to leave his Boston center (the second largest branch behind his Madison Avenue office in Manhattan),to go back to New York on the last shuttle. He kisses his daughters--who run the Boston center--goodbye...