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Each year TIME'S Education Program for high school students and teachers grows in scope and popularity. More than 2.5 million students took the TIME Current Affairs Test last year, and more than 6,000 teachers in U.S. and Canadian schools now make use of TIME and its classroom aids: wall charts and maps, vocabulary lists and the weekly Teachers' Guide to TIME...
...publish their findings in December, but their interim judgment is severe. They argue that the FTC's billing as guardian of consumer rights convicts the commission of misleading advertising-one of the principal sins it is supposed to eliminate. With only 1,170 employees and a paltry $16 million budget, the commission, they charge, is a toothless watchdog with a sorry record of too little protection too late...
Shrewd, articulate and widely read, the 69-year-old king notably enhanced his country's chances for a choice inkhululeko (independence) during the long wait. Swaziland has tripled its exports (to $58 million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets...
...talking about visiting the Roman ruins of Vienne. Flattered by the national publicity and suddenly fascinated by the city of their 1st, 2nd and 3rd century ancestors, Vienne's townspeople have now agreed to build their school on an adjoining 25-acre site -and to accept half a million dollars from Malraux's ministry for their suddenly valuable peach orchard...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 68, Presiding Bishop from 1959 to 1965 of the 3.5 million-member Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. and one of its leading advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving...