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...chill statistics on unemployment rose in Detroit, the United Auto Workers' Boss Walter P. Reuther, 51, shivered at the thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section...
Forty ministers and laymen assembled at the Presbyterians' Gilmor-Sloane House in Stony Point, N.Y. for a week-long "Institute on Overseas Churchmanship," under sponsorship of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Participants -mostly Presbyterians, with a sprinkling of Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutherans and Episcopalians-included an architectural engineer who commutes to Korea, a doctor and his wife going to Iran, a minister on his way to the American Church in Paris. Conferees listened to experts on such varied subjects as the mission work of the church, on the implications of the industrial revolution in Asia for Christianity...
...recommendations came from the Advisory Rules Committee of the American College Football Coaches Assn. at week-long college sports meetings...
Volunteers from Phillips Brooks House and paid nurses from the Cambridge Red Cross are conducting the week-long campaign. All of them have been kept busy since Monday, but are hopeful of better returns in the closing days of the drive...
Some 130 solicitors for the Combined Charities will start the week-long drive for funds this evening. A goal of $12,000, well above last year's total contributions of $8,285, has been...