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With little publicity and no fanfare, Edwin O. Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, returned to the States at the end of July for the first time in more than two years. He spent a three-week vacation at his Belmont home, interrupted only by a quick trip down to Washington, and devoted much of his time to working on the manuscript of his new book. Work on it had been stalled since President Kennedy snatched Reischauer from his Harvard professorship of Japanese History in March, 1961, and made him Ambassador to Japan...
...Adoption International Fund (WAIF), which has placed 11,000 homeless children since she founded it in 1954. But once in a while she slips back into harness. And she has not lost much of the old (38-24-36) Outlaw oomph. Poured into a gown for a three-week engagement in Las Vegas with Singers Connie Haines and Beryl Davis, she found it all choked up, and grabbed a scissors. "I just cut it to a decent V," she murmured. "What was cheesecake in The Outlaw days is like a Mother Hubbard today-just look at what the current crop...
...assured American bishops that a L'Osservatore Romano editorial on the church's right to guide Catholic political thinking had no application to the fortunes of Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy (whom he did not meet). Afterward, he visited South America, and last year he made a three-week visit to Africa, reporting back to Pope John on the church's problems in the Dark Continent...
Chicago-based McDonald's Hamburgers, only eight years old, boasts that not one of its franchisees has ever lost money; it has four planes cruising the country to pick out good sites for them, also sends newcomers to its "Hamburger U.," where they take three-week cram courses in everything from advertising to janitoring. Businessmen who take a franchise promise to meet "standards" set by the franchiser, to buy equipment and supplies from him, and sometimes to hand over a share of the gross...
...plans. Besides paying for unemployment insurance and chipping in their share of social security, hundreds of companies now pay up to half of employee life-insurance and medical-plan costs. Also common are a host of fringes that were considered visionary or radical only a dozen years ago: regular three-week vacations, eight or more paid holidays a year, severance pay, company-financed college courses, moving allowances for transferred employees, and layoff benefits that bring payments up to 80% of base wages. Even more liberal extras range from the country clubs for workers provided by Burroughs Corp...