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...parent, the 75,000-member American Federation of Teachers. In cities across the country where teacher morale is low, the A.F.T. is outstripping its bigger "professional" rival, the 765,600-member National Education Association, which shuns strikes and collective bargaining. Last week's strike may well stiffen U.S. school boards against the union. But it did produce phalanxes of traditionally timid teachers mad enough to hit the bricks like miners and dockers...
Laced Darkness. To make sure that it does not fall, the U.S. maintains in South Viet Nam a Special Forces military mission intended to stiffen Diem's 170,000-man army and to give anti-guerrilla instruction to selected Ranger units. A TIME correspondent last week reported on the work of a five-man U.S. group at Trung Lap, a village only 20 miles northwest of Saigon. With a force of four Ranger companies-two in training, two in the field-and a detachment of Civil Guards, the U.S. mission is fighting the Viet Cong for control...
...everything goes according to form tomorrow, the Crimson can expect to lose by 10 points or more. And no one is talking about the possibility that the cuts miler Mark Mullin suffered this week in a fall will stiffen up painfully. Mullin turned in a 3:01.0 three-quarters after his injury, so he should be ready...
...mounting pressures seem only to stiffen Verwoerd. "We regard the present position as very serious," he proclaimed. "We must be willing to suffer for our nation." Why, he said wonderingly, "South Africa has done more for the natives than any other country in Africa...
...used paper: ink. Largely because of ink's stubborn presence, U.S. newspapers, which pay a near-prohibitive $134 a ton for fresh newsprint, get less than $20 a ton for used newsprint, which is repulped and pressed into a coarse grey cardboard of the sort used to stiffen the backs of scratch pads and freshly laundered shirts. If there were an economic and efficient way of removing the ink, waste paper could be used over and over again. Last week in Chicago, Marshall Field's Sun-Times and Daily News were both running on newsprint reconstituted from waste...