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...those first happy (well, some of them happy) thoughts about going back to school, TIME'S Education Department last week was busy preparing a special greeting (see advertisement in this issue). Part of the greeting is a new Summer Review Quiz on current affairs, a first-of-the-term supplement to TIME'S annual Current Affairs Test that is sent out early in the calendar year and is used in thousands of U.S. classrooms...
What was Earl Long up to? Well, in his race for a third term as Governor, it would sure be nice to be able to pose as a martyr, to be able to claim that the durned legislature had adjourned without even giving him a chance to be heard. Explained Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, a staunch Longman: "The adjournment will earn him 100,000 votes...
...bills in Congress, the President summed up, the bill that best measured up to these needs was the Landrum-Griffin bill*-"a good start toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank...
...bore the appropriate name of Victor Footer. He steadfastly denied that he had intentionally kicked the woman, even though she was "sniggering" at him. But he was marched off to Wellington Barracks and charged with "irregular conduct while on sentry-go" and with being "extremely idle"-a brigade term used to cover anything unbecoming a guardsman. By the time Footer got his ten days CB (confinement to barracks), he was a national hero...
RAIL STRIKE INSURANCE pact is virtually certain of adoption by major railroad managements in preparation for negotiating the new long-term contracts in autumn. Plan is similar in principle to airlines' strike pact (TIME, Nov. 10), would insure strikebound railroads for up to $600,000 per day to cover all fixed operating expenses...