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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started closing down for two days that the city council recently ordered Sunday reopenings for some grocery stores, shoe-repair shops and department stores. The two-day weekend has also been adopted by subway stations, clinics, state banks and libraries, frustrating everyone from moviegoers to Russia's 25 million adult education students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Boredom & the Five-Day Week | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...threat seemed limited, consider ing that the N.D.P. has only 28,000 members out of Germany's 60 million people and that the Western Allies have little love for the party. Still, it was a breach that could be widened-and who could tell how broad East Germany's definition of a neo-Nazi could grow? The East Germans apparently have the N.D.P. list of members in Berlin and West Germany and insist that they will not let them pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Threat to a Lifeline | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...NURSING BUILDING. All that remained to be done last week was the dedication. But two hours before the ceremony, Philanthropist Gordon announced that he not only would not attend but also had withdrawn the $500,000 gift that had made the $2.7 million building possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Power of Protest | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Asked by the Ohio State scientists to identify the 2½-in.-long fossil, Paleontologist Edwin Colbert, of the American Museum of Natural History, last week announced that it was a bit of jaw bone from a 3 to 4 ft. salamander-like creature that lived about 200 million years ago in the early Triassic period. It was the first evidence that land vertebrates had roamed Antarctica when its climate was warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: New Life for Gondwanaland | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...recent laws passed by half a dozen states permitting parochial school students to be transported in public school buses. In Ohio and Michigan, the organization helped push through legislation supplying auxiliary services to parochial schools, such as counselors and specialized teachers, at a total annual cost of approximately $ 15 million. In Rhode Island and Michigan, it is now campaigning for tuition grants from states to parents of parochial school children as a partial rebate for the school taxes they pay. One of its slogans: "Need-not creed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church & State: Lobby for Largesse | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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