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...ager named Nguyen Van Be, who left his home in the Mekong Delta to join the Viet Cong. Van Be's death is recorded in poem, song and story throughout North Viet Nam and among the Viet Cong. Prompted by Hanoi's radio and newspapers, North Vietnamese schoolchildren compare his deeds to "a thousand thunderbolts." His picture, taken when he was a guerrilla, has become a pinup among the Viet Cong, who name squads after him and hold periods of silent meditation to gain strength from his example. The Viet Cong have awarded him a posthumous decoration...
...citizen understands that the enemy lies at his door to the East. Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev lectured party leaders in Moscow, Donetsk and Gorky; President Nikolai Podgorny hit Kazan and Sverdlovsk. Premier Aleksei Kosygin briefed the Pacific Fleet last month, and dropped in to give his blessing to schoolchildren taking special anti-China courses recommended "as a model" for all Russia. The Russian chief of staff and a top missile commander toured Eastern Siberia, and Deputy Premier Dmitry
...grafted McNamara-style systems-analysis techniques onto HEW's programs to determine which were paying off best. Gorham is engaged in providing the information that Gardner will need for decisions such as whether money is better spent on vocational education, or job retraining, or increased aid to poor schoolchildren. One startling fact uncovered by Gorham: an advertising campaign to persuade automobile drivers to use seat belts saved one life for every $88 spent; an extensive educational effort to train drivers saved one for every...
Unchanged ?. For years British schoolchildren have chanted, "Twelve pence make a shilling; 20 shillings make a pound," and the system they were straining to learn is as dismal as the chant. The mere job of figuring a 10% discount on a 3? 3s 3d roast beef could take a man to the edge of starvation. The system had at least one advantage: it had practically always been that way. The pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs...
...relief of accountants, schoolchildren, tourists and moneymen, all such variations will officially disappear with decimalization. They will be replaced by six coins: a halfpenny (worth 1.2 present pennies), a penny, a twopence piece, a 5-pence piece, a 10-pence piece and a 50-pence piece (worth, like the current 10-shilling note, half a pound). The pound will remain but the decimal system means that a price will be written as ?3.33. The sum can then be converted to dollars, simply by multiplying by 2.8, and the simplification may cut bookkeeping time by an estimated...