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...fighting Syrian artillery shelled border settlements in the Northern region of Israel around Tel Dan and Gonen while armor units made slight headway into Israeli territory. By the 7th, Israeli armor columns were transferred to the North and fought their way up the heavily fortified Syrian hills toward Mas'ada and Qunetra...
...Riding Ada L. Rice's Advocator in the $83,700 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Aqueduct race track six weeks ago, he was grounded for 15 days after he veered sharply in the stretch and blocked three other horses. Advocator won by 1¼ lengths, but was disqualified by the stewards-costing Owner Rice $54,405. Two weeks ago, Ycaza earned another 15-day suspension from New Jersey stewards for rough riding aboard William L. McKnight's three-year-old colt, Dr. Fager, in the $119,200 Jersey Derby at Garden State Park. Going into...
...action--confrontation and protest--rather than ideology has enabled SDS in the middle phase of its development to include a wide variety of personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair Bobby Dylan...
Ladies & Englishmen. Such shortages are changing the look of the labor force. Houston's Ada Oil Co. is now hiring female gas-station attendants who must be at least 5 ft. 6 in. tall in order to reach windshields. And-shades of TV's Josephine the plumber-women really are going into plumbing, because male plumbers are in short supply. Chicago's Checker Cab Co. has taken on 40 wom en drivers, and Deere & Co. of Moline, Ill., has women draftsmen, engineers and office managers. With even the supply of qualified women limited, some companies are going...
Joseph Rauth Jr., vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, announced the formation of the group. John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics and chairman of ADA, is listed as a sponsor of the project...