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In Des Moines, a strike by municipal employees filled the city with the stench of uncollected garbage and untended sewers. In New York, Detroit and other scattered spots around the nation, teachers picketed their own schools, forcing hundreds of thousands of children to play hooky (see EDUCATION). Forty-two thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The New Militancy | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Each morning, when Lord Thomson of Fleet wakes up in Buckinghamshire, he can never be quite sure how many newspapers he owns. Even if he knew the precise count before he went to bed, the figure could easily have changed overnight - such is the pace at which he has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Strength in the Afternoon | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

Strange Firefly. Scull and his wife Ethel - whose purchases helped get pop art off the ground - have 20 works scattered across the 1½ acres of their summer home in East Hampton, L.I. "Our lawn looked naked without sculpture," says Scull; he promptly commissioned ten young unknowns to fill the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Fresh-Air Fun | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

On the first and third Sunday of each month, inmates and their wives wend their way to small buildings scattered throughout the 21,000 acres sur rounding the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. There they relieve tensions and maintain a semblance of normality by taking advantage of the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Only on Sunday | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

(5 of 10) 1913, it had begun meeting with business and labor leaders to seek job openings for Negroes, still its biggest concern. When the U.S. entered World War II, 46 local branches were scattered around the country, and the league, through Industrial Relations Laboratories in 300 defense plants, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Other 97% | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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