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...minute negotiations collapsed, 1,350 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen walked off the Long Island Railroad, which carries 175,000 riders daily in and out of New York City. The trainmen are striking for a five-day week but want to continue receiving the seven days' pay they now get for working six. No major U.S. railroad has a five-day week for employees who man the trains, and a settlement on union terms could be used as a lever to get a five-day week on other railroads...
...rapidly that there are now 50 or so professional practitioners making a handsome living where there were perhaps half a dozen five years ago. Last week, in far from mute testimony that folk music is now grown up enough to have its own status symbols, some of the most popular of the artists turned up in Newport's Freebody Park for the city's second annual Folk Festival; others arrived in Berkeley, Calif, for a five-day festival that each day attracted 1,200 ardent fans...
Arriving in Manhattan for a five-day visit, Tokyo's Governor Ryutaro Azuma, 67, was greeted by Mayor Robert Wagner, paid a brief call on Japan's onetime military governor, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, still recuperating from a recent prostate operation (TIME, April 4). Asked if Manhattan and Tokyo have anything in common, Azuma, a man of few English words, tersely replied: "Yes. Traffic jams." While touring the city, Azuma's wife Teruko, 62 and mother of five, stumped her guides by mischievously inquiring: "Who owns the Statue of Liberty-New York or New Jersey...
...competition between the male and female of the species, at least one area of male superiority has long been supposed unchallenged: women are lousy drivers, men are great. Last week that illusion, too, was shattered. In one of the most competitive of U.S. driving tests, the 2,061-mile, five-day Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, women won the most coveted honors...
Fuming about staff disloyalty ("Here it is like Algeria"), Soule lamented that half of his $6,500 weekly payroll went to kitchen help, said: "It's too much." Some five years ago he had to cut back to a five-day week to avoid overtime expenses. Today, the unionized chefs are paid from $100 to $225 weekly; Franey...