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...workaday achievements, the I.L.O. has been successful. It won the NObel Peace Prize on its 50th anniversary in 1969 for its wide-ranging efforts to upgrade the lot of the world's workers. It is involved in vocational training in India and Morocco, management development in Pakistan and Tanzania; it provides technical assistance in building work forces for developing nations that lack economic expertise. The I.L.O. has made 152 recommendations to set international labor standards for working conditions, hours and vacations, and has begun moving on such newer issues as occupational disease and sex discrimination in jobs. I.L.O. specialists helped...
...successful tour climaxed by a sellout performance at London's Palladium. The tour, he told reporters in Madrid, had been a reassuring test of his recovery from the back injury he got last March when he fell from the stage in Pasadena, Calif., during a celebration of his 50th year in show business...
...experiment began, the number of students of both races held back has decreased steadily. At the end of the 1974-75 school year, 620 were held back, but that number dropped to 276 this past June. The Greensville achievement average has jumped from the 30th percentile to above the 50th percentile on national tests, though most of the improvement is in Grades 1 through 7, where past weaknesses are more easily corrected. The school dropout rate has decreased from 132 in the 1972-73 school year to 82 in the past academic year. Meanwhile, hundreds of letters have poured...
...heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans a Star Wars show based on the making of the movie, while CBS is preparing a string of shows devoted to its own 50th anniversary...
...ceremony urged them to raise the red, black, white and green Palestinian flag in Jerusalem itself, an idea which Israel is scarcely likely to accept. The P.L.O. last week quickly took credit for a bus bombing in the Israeli town of Afula, in which eight people were hurt-the 50th such incident this year...