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...hiss through town, pedaled silently by a silent people. "You hear the shuffle of feet," says a recent visitor, "but no squabbling of merchants, no squeals, no laughter. They don't even seem to talk to one another. You can hear the birds singing in downtown Hanoi at midday. It is strangely saddening...
...bombing raids began last February, Hanoi's working routine has been rudely disrupted. Citizens now rise at 5 a.m., perform calisthenics in the streets under the watchful eye of the local can bo, then go off to work until 9:30 a.m. Since Ho & Co. fear midday air raids, the workers do not get back to the job until 3 p.m., then stay on until 9:30 p.m. On Sundays "volunteers" wheel out of town to work on the dikes of the Red River delta. "Some go because they feel legitimately patriotic," explains a visitor. "Others go because...
Next day, the first hour's trading volume was the greatest in history: 2,630,000 shares. Stocks soared, plunged back on a midday news bulletin that Russia might step up aid to the Viet Nam Communists, then spurted again. Many small investors sold on the news from Moscow, but the institutions and professional traders kept buying. The market jumped eleven points that day, 17 points the next...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley was hopping mad. Just the day before, midday Loop traffic had been snarled for four hours while 500 civil rights demonstrators marched on city hall and the nearby board of education building to protest a decision to keep School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis on the job for another 17 months. Daley got Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson on the phone, told him: "Nothing like what happened yesterday will exist today." When the demonstrators showed up, cops arrested 252 men, women and children in what may well have been the opening round of a racially...
...Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours what doors of a warehouse should be opened or closed...