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...Aegean isles, posters urge: NAÍ. Next week 5 million Greeks will vote NAÍ (yes) or ÓXI (no) in a referendum on a new constitution drafted by the military junta that has ruled the country since it seized power 17 months ago. Even the most cautious analysts predict a minimum yes vote...
Public Health Service officials predict that the new flu, a variant of the A-2 that triggered a global epidemic in 1957 and killed 19,000, will cause, in healthy victims, illnesses similar to those resulting from earlier strains of A2. Average severity: two to five days of aches, pains and fever. For the elderly and infirm, however, A-2/Hong Kong/68 poses a threat to life. With this in mind, PHS experts have advised physicians to give inoculations of either old or new vaccine only to persons who run the risk of severe complications when they come down with...
Still, a few weak spots have appeared. Businessmen have begun cutting back their hitherto rapid inventory buildup, prompting manufacturers to predict a squeeze on their own sales in the fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell...
...deception was carried out by Pygmalion's authors, Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, former principal of South San Francisco's Spruce School. They told the teachers that a new test could predict which slow-learning students were likely to "show an unusual forward spurt of academic and intellectual functioning." The exam, actually a routine but unfamiliar intelligence test, was given to all pupils. Teachers were then told which students had displayed a high potential for improvement. The names were actually drawn...
...Riencourt has one resounding theme: "The major development of our time is the gradual and partly unconscious establishment of the American empire." It will appear to future historians, he dares to predict, as the end result of "everything that happened in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...