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...have been lodged with the commission. Typical was the case of a woman employed as an assembler in a California electronics plant. Although she holds a degree in electronics, she wrote, and could make from $1 to $3 an hour more as a technician, her employer refused to pro mote her on the convenient ground that she might have to lift something weighing more than 25 Ibs.- which would violate a California law that prohibits women workers from doing just that...
...know-and to know that he knows. In five principal chapters (Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Life), he expounds the physical universe as man has come to know it. And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum organum: a puzzled inflection of star stuff, a mote of mind that glitters for a moment on the grand galactic stream...
Died. Jigme P. Dorji, 45, Premier since 1955 of Bhutan, mote-size (18,000 sq. mi.) Indian buffer state in the Himalayas, who with his brother-in-law, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, brought Bhutan boldly into the 20th century by abolishing slavery and polyandry, joining the Colombo Plan, building hospitals and the first road to the outside world; by an unknown assassin's bullet, as he sat in a resthouse at the Indian border post of Phunchholing...
...Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Trout-fishing competition at a re mote Argentine lake. The Preakness (CBS, 5:30-6 p.m.). From Baltimore, the second coronet in racing's Triple Crown for 1963. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn...
Nehru soon forgot that vow, for it became obvious that Kashmir would vote either for independence or accession to Pakistan. Indian Kashmir's Moslem ruler, Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, an old friend of Nehru's and a fiery Kashmiri nationalist, confused things by starting to pro mote a local independence movement. India clapped Sheik Abdullah into jail in 1953 and introduced a series of repressive measures to halt other nationalist or pro-Pakistan movements. Except for three months in 1958, Sheik Abdullah has languished in prison ever since, was last week on trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow...