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...Chamber of Deputies, U Nu lolled on the Premier's bench, relaxed and smiling, waving to friends and reporters. When his rivals, Swe and Nyein, entered to a storm of applause, U Nu cordially joined in. In his speech during the temperate six-hour debate, the Buddhist Prime Minister told a scatological joke about a king, his queen, and two domestic animals that convulsed the Deputies, and then won the biggest applause of the day by promising that "as long as I am Prime Minister, our neutrality policy will remain unchanged. I, too, believe Communists should never...
...many votes were stacked against him for Rules Chairman Smith to pigeonhole the measure alongside other pieces of legislation that have displeased him in the past. But the bill, when the Rules Committee voted it out for consideration last week, carried a potentially crippling rule, i.e., during the six-hour debate it would be open to any and all floor amendments...
...students, regardless of major or grades, are required to complete a project that runs through their junior and senior years. Before graduating, the Wooster senior must pass finals in his regular courses, complete either a senior essay or a special project on his independent work, then hurdle a comprehensive, six-hour written test in his major field...
...hiring hall for housewives who want seasonal help in putting up storm windows or cleaning cellars. What is new is the rapid spread of moonlighting into high-paying fields where it did not exist before, or was not important. In Akron, where 30,000 rubber workers are on a six-hour day and a six-day week, 50% have more than one job. One in five of these actually works two full shifts in a rubber plant...
...Leon and Leonard Masden, 19, identical twins from Shepherdsville, Ky., went under the knife at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a kidney transplant authorized by court order (TIME, June 24). In a six-hour operation Leonard's left kidney was transplanted to Leon. This week the surgeons reported that, so far, both patients are doing well, that the transplanted kidney is functioning...