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...Phanthiet, 90 miles east of Saigon, on an off-duty hunting trip. Instead of game, Sergeant Matagulay ran into a band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, was held captive until his release last month. Last week, in his first press conference since he was freed, Matagulay depicted the spartan life and grim dedication of the Viet Cong...
...doubt that the Chinese would like to topple Khrushchev if they could. So far they have had precious few successes, though they are doing their best in world propaganda to show how resolute they are in India, how weak Khrushchev has been in Cuba. The belligerent and Spartan Peking line, perhaps required by Red China's own economic misery, may have some impact on the most doctrinaire of Communists around the world, but it is a backward and dated dogma that probably has less appeal than Khrushchev's optimistic promises of a better life and peaceful victory over...
...long-docile labor unions last year pressured wages and fringe benefits up 13.6% to $1.20 an hour, the highest in the Common Market; simultaneously, they pushed the average work week down to 41.3 hours, lowest in the Market. German executives, who once boasted of their nation's Spartan industriousness, now complain that many Germans do not work as hard as the 700,000 Spaniards, Greeks and Italians who have been imported to work in Germany. One piece of supporting evidence: since sick pay was introduced by law in 1954, the rate of absenteeism for "illness" has jumped from...
...superintendent of public instruction. The winner was a formidable, get-back-to-fundamentals conservative: zesty Max Rafferty, 46, onetime superintendent of schools in a Los Angeles suburb, whose recent book, Suffer, Little Children, argues in rococo prose that progressive education has led to "slobbism," and who calls for a spartan return to ''sweat, service and sacrifice...
...parent and teacher at the same time. To handle the parental role, they stress sports, discipline, manners, religion and democracy. To teach well, they accent intimate learning in classes that average nine students compared with the public school average of 28. Avoiding distractions, they generally offer spartan living on spacious, tradition-encrusted campuses, most of them in the Northeast. Despite these uniform methods, the schools that operate 24 hours a day come in all shapes and sizes...