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Publishing economics will now force a sharp reduction in our circulation in Canada, although readers there will still be able to obtain the U.S. edition of the magazine. Advertisers-in Canada and elsewhere-will also continue to be able to reach Canadian readers through TIME. Although our forced decision to close TIME Canada is painful for us, the reasons why also trouble many Canadians who are concerned about press freedom. Said an editorial in the Ottawa Citizen last week: "Much more than TIME Canada's existence has been at stake. More important is the principle that the government...
...dust kicked up during the year-long dispute has settled; as the rhetoric and mutual recriminations die down, both sides patiently await the National Labor Relations Board's initial decision on whether it will accept the case on appeal. Union officials are privately pessimistic about their chances to obtain even a hearing from the Washington board. Despite what they claim is overwhelming sentiment in favor of a Med area union on the part of area employees, and despite a NLRB ruling on a case involving clerical and technical workers at Columbia University's off-campus research facilities--which seems...
...farmers who are formed into cooperative brigades which determine local food production policy, while regulating crop growth to suit demand. There have been no severe food shortages in these areas in recent years, even during periods of intensified struggle. Food coops are structured so that the families of workers obtain weekly allotments of food, paying a fixed amount calculated on the basis of their wages and family size. The Youth League has taken the initiative in setting up elementary schools throughout the country and drawing the parents into the process with their political mobilization work...
William A. Lee, personnel administrator for Buildings and Grounds, who conducted a four-month investigation into the complaint by Holcombe, said in a letter to Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, dated last Wednesday that "based on all the evidence I have been able to obtain, I cannot conclude that a racial epithet was used as charged by Mr. Holcombe...
...second economy also provides a veritable army of shabashniki, or moonlighters, who will replace floorboards, mend roofs, fix plumbing and do any numher of services that would take months to obtain from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers...