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...week in extra pension and welfare contributions, $19 more in pay for a shorter week. The union has also flatly refused to yield its time-dishonored right to set bogus type, a featherbedding practice that involves hand-composing, and then throwing away unused, all advertisements received in mat form. With appropriate contempt, the publishers call this makework "dead horse." The I.T.U. has also rejected a publishers' request to compose stock tables automatically from perforated tape, at a substantial saving in labor cost...
...French, of course, adored all this, and certainly there is something to be said for such a powerfully perfumed little fleur du mat. It is lovely to look at-Cameraman Henri Decaë laves his park and his pond and his wandering darlings in a Proustian pallor of times lost. It is formidably well-played-Kruger finely suggests both Cupid and psycho, and Gozzi is a born actress with big brown eyes and a pretty little finger to wrap fathers around. And it is composed with surprising finesse-Director Serge Bourguignon, who at 31 had never before made a full...
...courses, the Faculty, the students are constantly changing; the SAT's and MAT'S keep improving," she said. "But the damned percentage stays the same every year...
...sixth of Hong Kong's 3,250,000 people occupy squatter towns like Diamond Hill, made up of cardboard-walled cubicles and straw-mat lean-tos. More than 80,000 others find homes in tar-paper shacks on tenement rooftops. Some 362,000 refugees have already been housed in the colony's impressive resettlement projects, and construction over the next five years will care for 100,000 more annually. Even the unemployed Chinese refugees in Hong Kong need not starve: there are 86 private and public social service agencies...
...snack, customers may be spared the soggy sponge with which the waitress often swabs down the counter. The Linen Supply Association of America now offers a gadget that, in effect, provides fresh linen tablecloths for each counter diner. Operating on the old roller-towel principle, the fresh section of mat is pulled into place after each meal by the waitress. Price: on the house...