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Laborers in Switzerland, France and Italy work longer than the Germans, and the French and Italians work longest-an average 45-to 48-hour week. In Britain the work week has been reduced from an average 47.4 hours in 1960 to 42 this year. Europe's shortest work week is in Norway, where laborers spend an average 39.6 hours per week in the factories. But most other European nations have a way to go before they near the 40.4 hours put in by the average worker...
...book. A section on the history of the Army, "175 Years of Fighting," begins by saying, "First off, we had better give a brief fill-in of the more important wars in which our Army has taken part," and ends with "You've just read about the shortest history of the Army ever written. It doesn't even hit the high spots." This kind of historical analysis, however, is not limited to the strictly historical section alone. In a subsection of the chapter on communications, for instance, the author attributes the fall of the First French Empire to a lack...
...most popular is ushi aruki, or cow-walking. Realizing that they cannot block the overwhelming conservative majority, the Socialists do their best to slow business to a standstill. In balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes in Diet corridors, deliberate traffic jams, boycotts, and picketing to prevent the Speaker from taking his seat. Through these tactics...
Thus, in just about the shortest story he ever wrote, Ernest Hemingway 40 years ago described King Constantine and Queen Sophia as they were clinging to the unstable throne of Greece. Last week Constantine's son, King Paul, was also in his gardened palace at Tatoi, outside Athens, and the whiskey was still good. But unlike his father, Paul did not want to go to America. He wanted to go to Britain, and his Premier would not let him, thereby precipitating a first-class political crisis...
...Problematic." Elevated to the papacy when he was nearly 77, John XXIII was "servant of the servants of God" less than five years-the shortest reign since the obscure Pius VIII, who ruled for 20 ailing months after his election in 1829. But far from being the caretaker that the church expected, John created an atmosphere in which, says Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, "a lot of things came unstuck -old patterns of thought, behavior, feeling. They were not challenged or refuted, but just sort of dropped...