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There happens to be a pool table in the White House, but Julie Nixon Eisenhower has never used it. Still, Julie didn't hesitate when, visiting a home for senior citizens in a Cleveland suburb, she saw a pool table. She chalked up, promptly missed two shots in a row. Later, at a speech to a Kiwanis women's meeting in Columbus, Julie offered to put her life on the line for Dad and country. Asked if she would be "willing to die for the Thieu regime" in South Viet Nam, Julie answered, "Yes, I would," and went...
Contract disputes often centered on issues that were not merely monetary. In the Boston suburb of Somerville, for example, some 500 teachers struck after being ordered to handle seven rather than six classes a day. Frequently the issue was job security, a key concern of teachers at a time of a shrinking job market. Chicago, for instance, had three applicants for each of 3,000 openings for new teachers. According to the National Education Association, about half of the 234,000 men and women who graduated from teacher training programs last June have not been able to find teaching positions...
...without his family ties. Generally acknowledged as the country's brightest young business leader, he works a twelve-to 14-hour day and spends half his time traveling to some of the more than 100 countries where Volvo does business. Says Gyllenhammar: "If you put me in a suburb and gave me a six-hour day, I'd have a heart attack...
...FRIEDMAN, 28, a bantam weight lifter, was Israel's best hope for a medal. A physical education teacher in a Haifa suburb and a bachelor, Friedman came to Israel in 1960 from Poland...
...whether the informal-or so-called de facto -school segregation common outside the South is as unconstitutional as the de jure segregation explicitly established in Southern states by law. The stalled rulings in the much publicized cases of Detroit and Richmond, involving busing across county lines between city and suburb, are also now being appealed. And it is likely that there will be a request to review a ruling last month that a judge can order busing only after trying "every other possible remedy...