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Breaking Backs. The teachers insist that they are technically not striking, which they are forbidden to do by Florida law. Instead they have resigned-a maneuver that happens to violate the terms of their contract. At midweek, Kirk abandoned a politicking junket in the West, flew home to try to resolve the crisis. His first effort-a pleading back-to-work speech addressed to teachers assembled in Miami's Marine Stadium-ended in failure. Irked by the crowd's hostility, Kirk urged them to "get together with one good rousing boo" for the Governor-and drew only...
...talk is expected to drone on until midweek, when the Senate begins a seven-day recess to permit Republican orators to scatter for Lincoln's Birthday addresses. Soon thereafter, the Democrats take their turn with a Jefferson-Jackson Day recess. Thus far, the Senate's torpor has mattered little, since its calendar is empty of business. Incredibly, with crises pressing in from all sides, the world's greatest deliberative body simply has nothing else to deliberate about...
...exchange value of its dollar by a like amount, but the price of food (mostly imported from mainland China) and other goods promptly jumped between 7% and 20%, stirring so much discontent among the crown colony's largely Chinese population that some officials feared renewed political violence. At midweek, the Hong Kong government backed down by cutting the devaluation to a mere 5.7%. In Malaysia, which took the curious step of devaluing its old, but still circulating, sterling-backed currency though not its new gold-backed dollar, eight were killed and 137 hurt when a protest demonstration erupted into...
...Charles de Gaulle, who is not known for passing out bouquets to subordinates, he met with his Cabinet at midweek and praised Couve's Luxembourg performance. It had been, said the general, "efficacious...
Second Introduction. Though workers began to go back to Ford's 93 plants at midweek, pesky local issues remained to be settled at some key stamping and engine facilities, and it will be at least two weeks before Ford gets back into full production. Ford had already lost $1 billion in car and truck sales to its 7,200 dealers. In the mid-October selling period, Ford sales plunged 65% while its strike-free rivals forged ahead. So slow is traffic in Ford showrooms that the company plans to start the year all over again, with a "second introduction...