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...that he felt it would be dangerous to undertake any industrial reform in the wake of France's month-long economic paralysis. French businessmen and unionists counted on him to talk some reason into De Gaulle. At present, France is losing funds at such a drastic rate-$300 million to $400 million a week-that its net reserves of some $5 billion in gold and currency will be imperiled within a few months unless the huge outflow of francs is somehow checked...
...they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They run the most economic and perhaps the most unusual operation in the war, carried out on an annual budget of just over $100 million and a seemingly limitless supply of gall and resourcefulness...
...players were holding out for a pension-fund donation of $312,000 from each of the 16 clubs. That would increase the size of the fund from $5.5 million to $10.5 million and nearly double the basic pension (now $450 a month) for a five-year N.F.L. veteran at age 65. Pleading poverty, the owners refused. "There are at least three, maybe five teams in this league, which cannot absorb that cost and stay anywhere near healthy," said Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. The athletes were not convinced. Said Minnesota Vikings End Paul Flatley: "We put fans...
This month Congress acted to inject much-needed relevancy into craft education. Going well beyond the Administration's request of $250 million, the House Education and Labor Committee unanimously approved a $1.2 billion Vocational Education bill to provide for more instructors, modern courses, and more work-study programs for high school shop students...
World of Work. The reform is long overdue. During the post-Sputnik era, so much fanfare was given to college preparation that shop training was neglected-to the detriment of millions of youngsters who had neither the wish nor the wherewithal for higher education. One million students drop out of U.S. high schools each year. Out of every five pupils who entered fifth grade in 1957, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only one has stuck it out to pick up his diploma next year. At the same time, only one in four is receiving vocational training in high...