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...school board considered several "survival plans," including cutting back to a four-and even a three-day week, but, said Superintendent Charles Wolfe, "we know from experience that youngsters forget so much in four days that it takes a day to get reacquainted with their work when they come back." Instead, the 13-man board voted last week to delay the opening of school two weeks in September, to give students a six-week Christmas vacation, and to end the school year on April 19, two months earlier than usual. In all, it plans to operate the schools for only...
...company's current six-week stand at Lincoln Center, however, has a special point of interest. It is its first under the directorship of Kenneth MacMillan, 42, an Ashton disciple who is best known for his full-length Romeo and Juliet, and who succeeded his mentor in the fall of 1970. For the occasion, the company is sporting two new MacMillan pieces. Alas, together they lay two of the biggest eggs of the New York ballet season...
...slings and arrows of outrageous fortune all seemed directed at Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath and his beleaguered country last week. Beset by a six-week national coal miners' strike, Britons were subjected to rotating power blackouts that caused chaos in industry, forced the layoff of 1.5 million workers, and at times made it seem as if the nation were lit only by candlepower. The political heat was directed at Heath, who found himself widely criticized for obduracy in the face of the miners' demands, and then compelled to give in to them...
Overflowing with admiration for the Chinese people, George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, returned to Harvard last night, wrapping up a six-week trip through North Vietnam and China...
...than even union negotiators had first expected. It was the board's first major wage decision, and the surprise in the inflationary giveaway was the peace-at-any-price vote of business representatives. Evidently convinced by mine owners that the contract was their only hope of settling the six-week coal strike, all five joined with the labor members in approving it. Public members wanted to chop the increase to 12.5%, and three voted against the 15% rise; the others abstained. The ones who voted expressed an understated doubt that inflation will decline "if increases of this magnitude...