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...visit to the Midlands, the industrial region hardest hit by the two-day layoffs, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week found Britons managing remarkably well despite the current economic dislocations. "If there is any pride around the Midlands," cabled McWhirter, "it is that they have managed to cope with half-time employment better than anyone else could have. This is our specialty, mate,' said Jack Hebbs, a Midlands shop steward. 'Patch and improvise. The Germans would go running for their rule books, and the French would be out marching with the red flags. We know the routine...
...decided that I needed help after I put my youngest son in a plastic bag and tied him up," said one speaker yesterday near the end of a two-day Symposium on Child Abuse in the Science Center...
...future ideas or stories already under way. Occasionally, some of us get a chance to go beyond weekly news concerns and discuss long-range issues and new ideas with academicians and other intellectuals. In May 1971 several Time Inc. editors, writers and correspondents were the beneficiaries of a thoughtful two-day colloquy at the University of Chicago; equally provocative was a series of informal meetings in the fall of 1972 with thinkers in Los Angeles. This month 19 top editorial Time Inc. staffers met in the library of the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Mass., with scholars in several disciplines...
Perhaps the ugliest scene occurred at the Pasar Senen shopping center, where thousands of rioters looted the Chinese-owned stores and stalls and started fires. Seven of the ten known victims of the two-day riots were killed here. The number of dead would have been far greater if the Indonesian police and troops had not held their fire. "It would have been impolite," explained Foreign Minister Adam Malik, "to start shooting while our guests were here...
...their speeches during the initial two-day meeting, the hostile neighbors for the most part swallowed their bitterness and demonstrated an equal zeal for Kissinger's call to "overcome old myths with new hope." One reason for the rhetorical moderation was that there was a dreadful prospect staring at the conferees. If they failed to achieve peace, as Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy pointed out, "the chances of repeating such a historical gathering will be very remote indeed...