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...suburban Valley View school district outside Chicago, where F-A-L-L does not necessarily mean back to school, either. There, 1,675 elementary-school children are now on vacation. After their three-week break, the children will return to classes while another 1,675 of Valley View's 6,700 pupils take a holiday. So it goes throughout the year, summer included. Valley View uses its classrooms efficiently, dividing the children into four groups that have staggered schedules of nine weeks on and three weeks off. Thus the school has been able to absorb 1,760 new pupils...
...Last week's incidents brought the three-week death toll to 30. The tough "provisional" wing of the I.R.A. admitted responsibility for the electricity-board bombing and claimed it had given the board's management time to evacuate all employees. But to the firebrand Protestant extremist...
...foremen, are given four weeks' vacation starting with their first year on the job. Many Frenchmen take holidays of up to seven weeks. Rather than try to stagger vacations and cut down production, most French plants let their employees off in August and close for the month. In Sweden, workers are still better off; every employee in the country is guaranteed a month's vacation by law. In Norway the farmers have set up a fund which should pay them for a four-week holiday by 1975. Australia per mits at least three-week vacations...
...confidence in its government's management of the war was badly shaken. In July of that year, two Marine companies ran into an ambush outside Con Thien, suffering 83 dead and 170 wounded. In September, the Communists began a long artillery and ground siege that in one murderous three-week period killed 196 and wounded 1,917 on and around the base...
Today Robbins encourages the same kind of entrepreneurial experimentation. As part of their three-week training program, fledgling district sales representatives are asked to concoct a new flavor. Robbins even turned TIME'S Michael Creedman loose in the lab last week. The reporter mixed print-stock-white vanilla with letter-size bits of black chocolate and a ribbon of magazine-border-red strawberry to produce a flavor called Stop the Presses...