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Power Struggle. It was just this goal that led teachers in 1960 to eye the U.F.T. as a possible savior. With fewer than 10,000 members, the union staged a one-day strike that wrung from the Board of Education the right of all teachers to choose a single bargaining agent. In the resulting election, the union beat an N.E.A. group by two to one, emerged as the teachers' voice...
...have turned out miles of absolutely asinine acetate, and whover wirtes thos subtilise ouhgt to be shto. Nevertheless, with stunning consistency, with the fire and élan of spirits snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life...
...most part small shopkeepers-duka wallahs to the Africans-and junior civil servants, who have never found middle-class security in their middle-class vocations. African nationalists have long complained that the Asians are a clannish, alien people whose only interest in Africa lies in the profits to be wrung from African customers. "The Indians are opportunists and quislings," cries Nyasaland's Prime Minister Hastings Banda. "Everywhere in the country they are taking business from African businessmen." The Asians make a habit of shipping much of their profit out of Africa; African politicians charged bitterly last fall that their...
...came to power in 1958, the nation's reserves were so close to exhaustion that he had no recourse but to devalue the franc. Offered two alternative proposals, the President, who is as innocent of economics as Konrad Adenauer or John Kennedy, gambled on a "strong plan." It wrung 17.5% from the franc's worth, and wiped out the black market in currency that was draining France's reserves...
...panoramas -the vast valleys and rugged mountain chains of a newly self-conscious America -Inness was quite satisfied to paint whatever lay just beyond his own backyard. Last week the Paine Art Center, in Oshkosh, Wis., displayed 27 Inness paintings, a pleasant reminder of how much magic can be wrung from the gathering of a storm, the first nips of autumn, or simply the coming on of evening...