Word: nov
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Callaghan hopes that his concordat will buy enough time to allow the current union fever to subside before he has to face another election, which must be held by Nov. 20. But the opposition has no intention of letting Callaghan set his own political timetable. Some important tests of the Labor government's leverage with the unions will come in March, when contracts expire for both the coal miners and power station employees. "Mighty Maggie" Thatcher, who dismisses Callaghan's concordat as "a boneless wonder," might well decide that the timing will be right next month to force...
Chan's Ivy League education began Nov. 29, when he approached the Harvard Crimson with an advertisement featuring his magazine's familiar symbol and an invitation to audition for the project. The next day's edition featured a news story headlined PLAYBOY SEEKS WOMEN HERE TO POSE NUDE. That evening a majority of the 30 staff members at a Crimson editorial meeting voted to reject the ad. That decision prompted some staffers, male and female, to write lengthy editorial explications and dissenting opinions. The majority endorsed the paper's editorial, declaring that Playboy "has played...
...glimmer is the latest in a long series of illuminating articles Jaroff and his staff have offered readers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse awards have recognized those efforts. TIME Correspondent Peter Stoler received an honorable mention in the magazine science writing category for his Nov...
...three weeks in 1956, the mutinous Hungarians had conducted a revolt to drive the Soviets out of their homeland. They had also waited in some agony for American intervention, but none came. On Nov. 4 reinforced Soviet Army forces swept through Budapest and crushed the rebellion there. By Nov. 14, when the last rebel stronghold fell, about 25,000 Hungarians had been killed...
...committee's bewildering finding rested almost solely on one fact: acoustics experts who examined a tape recording of sounds made in Dallas' Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, testified that they can detect four shots being fired and that one came from the grassy knoll lying ahead of the President's limousine. The committee insisted that Oswald's second and third shots hit Kennedy from behind, while the mysterious second gunman missed...