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Companies that have adopted the four-day week have been rewarded by easier recruiting, lower turnover of scarce skilled workmen and less absenteeism. At the George H. Bullard Co. of Westboro, Mass., average absenteeism dropped from 6% of the work force to less than 1%. Says Jerry Goucher, a wheel finisher: "I don't have to lose money by leaving work to fish on opening day like the other guys have to do. Lately, I've been cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping. Then we have Saturday and Sunday to go somewhere." As Jack Peterson...
...archaeological evidence, a byproduct of intense excavation and building activities by the Israelis in the territories they conquered in the Six-Day War, is far more substantial. In June 1968, a year after Israeli troops occupied all of Jerusalem, workmen began bulldozing a rocky hillside more than a mile north of the Old City's Damascus Gate in preparation for putting up a modern apartment-house complex. They discovered almost immediately that the site, called Giv'at ha-Mivtar (meaning Hill of the Divide), was honeycombed with burial caves dating back to biblical times...
...says. "And down there it was the farm boys who wore jeans. Now I am selling them in elegant velvets to women for $80." Mrs. Edmund Howar,* a Washington society leader, took the madness one step further with her appearance at a party last month in a pair of workmen's natural-colored overalls. Her purse, just as naturally, was a tool...
Along the way, the workmen of Gdansk sang the traditional Communist anthem, the Internationale. Soon the march was swelled by hundreds of housewives, students and other Gdansk citizens, equally incensed by the price increases. By the time the column reached party headquarters, it was 20,000 strong. It was also out of control. In vain, police pleaded with the demonstrators to halt. In reply, the crowd hurled homemade fire bombs at the headquarters building and the nearby Gdansk railroad station. When firemen arrived to douse the flames, they were beaten back. Police opened fire on the demonstrators-only to turn...
...leaves Currier House at 11:45 a. m., just lucky enough to pass by a row of workmen who have quit work for lunch. All six of them immediately stop eating to stare at her, whistle, and make obscene remarks under their breaths. Since she is a brunette, they have no way of greeting her. If her hair were blond or red, they could have screamed, "Hey, blondie" or "Hey, red," and razzed her just that much more...