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...cats. But once a year the Isle is hell on wheels. Sandbags guard the sidewalks, the blat-a-tat of racing engines shatters the quiet, and gravediggers thoughtfully lay out new plots in Borough Cemetery. "Tourist Trophy Week" is at hand-and thousands of motorcycle riders arrive for a five-day carnival of racing over one of the world's most perilous courses...
Three Harvard Baha'is will fly to London this week to attend a five-day international Baha'i Jubilee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the public declaration of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith...
...there is a kind of A.A. for smokers. Like A.A., its meetings have spiritual overtones. It is led by a barnstorming preacher of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a physician. At the end of their five-day course, they claim, 75% of all signees give up smoking, and up to 40% are still off tobacco a year later...
...WAGES & BENEFITS : Powers demands a wage increase of $19 a week over the present $145 (New York printers average about $7,500 yearly), extra vacation time (estimated cost to publishers: $3.15 a week), five-day annual sick leave ($2.50 a week), reduction of the work week from 36¼ hours to 35 ($8.16 a week), new night differential pay ($1.90 a week). Taken together, the Powers wage-benefit requirements would cost the publishers an extra $37 a week per printer for two years. In return, the publishers have offered Powers a $10 package...
...years, who was himself a Communist in his youth, and was ordered out of Puerto Rico in 1955 by U.S. State Department officials trying to get along with a Venezuelan dictator. But the fires of violence have cooled in Betancourt. When he arrived in the U.S. for a five-day state visit, he was acknowledged as a firm friend and ally of the U.S., and as the Kennedy Administration's favorite Latin American...