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...labor's next great clarion call, Gallup pollsters last week found that relatively few Americans want more leisure. Of those questioned, 61% rejected the four-day week (31% say yes, 8% had no opinion). Biggest single occupational group to turn thumbs down on the idea: farmers (76%); manual workers mustered the strongest approval (39%). Fifty-four percent of the nation's men opposed the four-day week. By contrast, 67% of the women voted against it-presumably to keep husbands from getting underfoot, or out of hand...
Four-Word Manual. When newspapers cover business with top reporters and the uninhibited news judgment on which-in every other field-newsmen pride themselves, they are usually rewarded with heavy readership. The Philadelphia Bulletin's Financial Editor J. (for Joseph) A. Livingston, whose syndicated, thrice-weekly column is carried by some 60 other dailies, attracts a broad cross section of readers with straight-from-the-shoulder reporting that acknowledges no sacred cows. Leslie Gould, daily columnist (50 papers) and financial editor for Hearst's New York Journal-American, writes about his subject as if he were covering...
Suddenly Steeves felt a sharp explosion. The cockpit filled with smoke. Working methodically by the numbers from the training manual, he jettisoned his canopy, blew himself out by the ejection rig, pulled the cord on his parachute. Down, down he swayed toward the Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches...
...Texas public education, father ("Well, maybe baby sitter") of the state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey...
...silence is maintained until 8, when members of the community assist in cleaning rooms, washing dishes, etc. Group Bible study is at 9, followed by discussion of the Biblical texts at 9:30. At 10:30 there is a coffee break. From ii to lunchtime (12:30) members do manual labor. From 1 to 4 is free time-recreation, meditation, prayer. An afternoon discussion period lasts from 4 to 6, followed by supper. There is an evening discussion at 7:30, and the day ends with evening prayer service at 9. The rule of silence is observed from...