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Last week the first 46 of Hamburg's new teachers arrived via a charter flight paid for by the Germans. "It all sounded like a great adventure," said Newlywed William Woodcock III. "Neither my wife nor I had ever been outside the U.S." The teacher transplant idea is catching on fast. One neighboring German state has started U.S. advertising of its own. Two others have asked Hamburg for the names of the 400 applicants it rejected...
...Miss Pullar, her history, and history in general, goes downhill after the Industrial Revolution. "Not since Imperial Rome can there have been so many signposts to gluttony," J.B. Priestley wrote of the Edwardians. (Edward VII's breakfast: haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock.) Yet coexisting with gluttony, comparatively unimaginative gluttony, was malnutrition. Only one of three Englishmen of military age was found fit for World...
Rising construction costs have forced some businessmen to defer plans for new factories or to shift production abroad, depriving Americans of jobs. Voters, fed up with local tax increases, are rejecting bond issues for schools and other public projects with increasing frequency. Labor leaders themselves are worried. Says Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers: "There is no question that the wage increases in construction are excessive...
Labor representatives at Wednesday's meeting included Leonard Woodcock, president of the UAW; Harold Gibbons, international vice president of the Teamsters; Howard Samuel, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (AFL-CIO); James Matles, of the United Electrical Workers; and John Hein, assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers...
...years of poaching Thorpe was fined a total of only $360 and had "four good guns" confiscated−a small penalty, he figures, compared with the yearly bag records he keeps in a blue notebook. In 1942, his best year, he took 48 pheasant, 72 partridge, 68 hare, 1 woodcock, 106 geese, 146 mallard, 231 widgeon, 193 shelduck, 2 shoveler, 1 tufted duck, 61 plover, 18 pigeon, 79 redshank, 50 knot, 40 curlew, 1 reeve, 1 gadwall, 1 pintail, 1 black-tailed godwit, 2 whimbrel and 6 rabbit. In the early 1960s, the invasion of the marshes by wildfowling clubs...