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Arriving in Washington this week for a six-day state visit: Ecuador's President Galo Plaza Lasso...
...telling the truth, he had done more with his $4,150 annual wage than any fireman in history. Records showed that he had helped finance a Flushing bar & grill for his brother-in-law. There were definite indications that he had been involved in promoting a housing project, a six-day bicycle race, and a scheme to sell 40,000 Christmas trees to firemen and their relatives...
...royal convoy, the frigate Surprise, carrying Princess Elizabeth, escorted by the frigate Magpie, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh, put into Turko-Limano for a six-day unofficial visit to Greece and the duke's family...
...Washington, the Federation of Churches bought full-page newspaper ads to trumpet: "Ii's GOD'S HOUR FOR GREATER WASHINGTON."The federation imported a "preaching team" of 30 Protestant ministers and laymen, to evangelize Washingtonians at a six-day session of some 300 breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, lectures and services. At the mission's opening ceremony in 10,000-capacity Uline Arena, 250 black-robed local ministers joined with the visiting preachers in a "Festival of Faith" which packed the hall and spilled an overflow crowd of 2,000 into a nearby church. Total attendance: an estimated...
...manpower shortage, the National Industrial Conference Board last week offered management some advice: don't put your employees on a seven-day work week or a 60-hour schedule. Whenever that happened in World War II, said N.I.C.B., "output increased [briefly]. Then, as fatigue accumulated, weekly output fell to levels existing before the change, or even below that." Added N.I.C.B.: the best standard in peace is a five-day, 40-hour week; in war, a six-day, 48-hour week...